The captain of the MV Lifeline arrived in court to face charges of maritime irregularities committed last week in an incident which later saw the intervention of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to broker a nine-nation deal that eventually led the ship to be allowed to dock in Malta.
Captain Claus-Peter Reisch will be arraigned in court tomorrow morning on charges relating to improper ship registration.
The MV Lifeline was allowed to enter Malta on Wednesday evening with 234 immigrants onboard after eight European Union member states, later joined by Norway, agreed to 'share' the immigrants. The vessel had been stranded between Malta and Libya for six days.
Both Italy and Malta had accused Reisch of disobeying instructions when he refused to take the immigrants back to Libya. The NGO has since argued that doing so would have jeopardised the safety of the immigrants onboard, as most had been imprisoned or tortured in Libya.
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