German boat captain Pia Klemp faces prison in Italy for aiding illegal immigration after she saved people from drowning in the Mediterranean in 2017.
Klemp accused Italian authorities of organising a ‘show trial’ and could be looking at up to 20 years in prison.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, sought to stop migrant rescue ships from docking on Italian shores and in January made headlines with the forced evacuation of hundreds of asylum-seekers from Italy’s second-largest refugee centre.