The 'law is an ass' if rescue captain is accused of breaking law - Mario de Marco

If a migrant rescue vessel captain was accused of breaking the law for steering an unregistered boat, then "the law is an ass", Nationalist MP Mario de Marco says in a strong opinion piece on Saturday. "Laws are meant to protect people, especially vulnerable members of society. When we start enforcing or creating laws to hurt people, or to allow people to suffer, then we are abusing the very concept of law. We are creating a legal washing machine to clean a dirty conscience," Dr de Marco, a lawyer and former PN deputy leader says in today's Talking Point.  Dr de Marco was reacting to the arraignment of a German ship captain who stands accused of steering an unregistered boat within Maltese territorial waters without the necessary registration and licence. Malta has joined Italy in barring NGO migrant rescue vessels from operating from its ports.  "We are citing the law to justify the growing cemeteries in the bottom of our surrounding sea. We are looking at legal texts instead of looking at the suffering and death of men, women and children... As a lawyer and politician, it hurts me to see politics and law used and abused to hurt others," Dr de Marco says. "Unfortunately, we in...