A charity rescue vessel bring 41 shipwrecked migrants into a port in Italy becoming the second boat to defy a government bid to close the ports issued last month.
Deputy Minister Matteo Salvini issued a fifty thousand euro fine against vessels which enter Italian waters without authorisation and would like to raise the fine to one million euros.
The rescue vessel requested on Twitter to disembark those rescued, saying it had sailed to "the only possible safe port for landing" and cited there were "intolerable hygiene conditions aboard".