Yacht impounded over alleged breach of far-right government’s new rules for rescue vessels
Italian authorities have detained a migrant rescue boat financed by British street artist Banksy after it responded to a distress call in the Central Mediterranean.
The vessel, painted in bright pink and named Louise Michel after a French feminist anarchist, was impounded in the port of Lampedusa on Sunday in relation to an alleged breach of new rules for rescue boats operated by non-governmental organisations, introduced by Italy’s far-right government.
