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⛓️ Heute Morgen um 9h hat die #Libra der ital. Marine den Hafen von #Brindisi🇮🇹 in Richtung #Albanien🇦🇱 verlassen. An Bord sind 40 Menschen, die in #Gjader bis zu ihrer Abschiebung weggesperrt werden sollen.

Derzeit gibt es noch keine genaueren Informationen über die betroffenen Personen.

#NichtMeineLager #AllCampsAreBad

ilpost.it/2025/04/11/la-nave-l

Il Post · La nave Libra è partita da Brindisi per portare altri migranti in Albania

Via #Reuters @ 2:29am ET on Mar 13, 2025

On a Saturday morning in May, 2020, #Italian police officers caught two men pouring chemical waste into the sewers in the southern port city of #Brindisi, near a small plane components factory

Five years on, that routine #pollution case has spiralled into a wide-ranging judicial investigation into how thousands of flawed #titanium and #aluminium parts manufactured in #Italy ended up in nearly 500 #Boeing787 jets still in use.

reuters.com/business/aerospace

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5 der 49 nach #Albanien gebrachten Geflüchteten wurden schon kurz nach Ankunft nach #Italien gebracht: 4 weil sie minderjährig sind, 1 weitere Person wurde als bes. "verletzlich" eingeschätzt. Sie kamen am Dienstag Abend in #Brindisi an.
Über die Inhaftierung der anderen 44 Geflüchteten entscheidet das Berufungsgericht. Eine Entscheidung wird heute erwartet.

avvenire.it/attualita/pagine/a

www.avvenire.itI 49 migranti in Albania sulla Cassiopea: 5 subito trasferiti in ItaliaBy Marco Birolini

I wrote about our plans for a #summer #vacation to #Greece without airtravel a while ago. I'd said I wanted to put my money and effort where my mouth is.

Now I wanted to add a follow-up, but the original post is already gone. My fault for setting auto-deletion to 3 months.

Two adults and two children travelled from #Vienna 🇦🇹 to #Corfu 🇬🇷 and back via #Italy 🇮🇹 , with some sightseeing in #Ancona, Corfu Town, #Brindisi, and #Rome without using any cars or airplanes. I had bought additional travel insurance for missed connections, but we didn't need that.

Itinerary: Tram, #Nightjet sleeper, bus, #ferry, bus, bus, (hotel stay with occasional outings by bus), bus, bus, ferry, shuttle bus, bus, (hotel), #Frecciargento train, (hotel, metro and bus for #sightseeing), #Frecciarossa train, Nightjet sleeper, metro. (Busses means regular public transit busses on numbered lines that the locals also take.)

Every single vehicle everywhere had working air condition. They were clean and on time, and all the longer trips had tasty food. There's power outlets everywhere. The Frecciarossa (red arrow) between Rome and #Bologna only got to 250 km/h, not the 300 we were hoping to see, but that was the only slightest disappointment.

The ferries are not at all climate-friendly. I have not found a number for how much #CO² for a crossing, but they are similar to cruise ships. The trips are far shorter than cruises of course, but we see and smell the black smoke from the stacks. It's wrong to feel smug about taking a ferry instead of an airplane. All the busses had #combustion engines. All the trains/metros/trams were #electric, so that depends on the grid. The Austrian ÖBB prides itself on using only "green" #electricity.

We enjoyed the trip very much. I am unsure about any future travel. I would totally do this again in terms of comfort and experiences. But my goals for how much I hope to not pollute and damage the world for my pleasure have changed. I have no answers right now.

Wie von den ital. Behörden angeordnet, wurden am späten Abend 100 Gerettete vor #Sizilien von der Guardia Costiera⚓🇮🇹 an Bord genommen, um sie an Land zu bringen.
Die #GeoBarents ist jetzt unterwegs nach #Brindisi wo die anderen 339 Menschen von Bord gehen sollen.

via @MSF_Sea

@MSF_Sea@twitter.com:
🟡 UPDATE
As requested by #Italian authorities, 100 survivors have just been transshipped to an Italian naval asset off #Sicily. We hope they will be able to disembark in the best conditions as soon as possible.
TwitterMSF Sea on Twitter“🟡 UPDATE As requested by #Italian authorities, 100 survivors have just been transshipped to an Italian naval asset off #Sicily. We hope they will be able to disembark in the best conditions as soon as possible.”