ROME: An Italian court has acquitted former crew members of the migrant rescue vessel Aquarius eight years after they were accused by prosecutors in Sicily of illicit waste trafficking, the charity SOS Mediterranee said on Friday. The ship was seized in 2018 after a year-long investigation into the disposal of waste generated during rescue operations in the central Mediterranean. Prosecutors in Catania argued that items including clothing belonging to rescued migrants, food waste and medical refuse should have been classified as infectious sanitary waste, requiring special handling.

I team di Medici senza frontiere erano stati accusati dal procuratore Zuccaro di aver smaltito illecitamente la spazzatura accumulata nel corso delle missioni

L'imbarcazione ha salvato vite umane nel Mediterraneo centrale tra il 2016 e il 2018. Poi è arrivata l'accusa di non rispettare le leggi sullo smaltimento dell'immondizia