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'''Carola Rackete''' ({{IPA-de|kaˈʁoːla ʁaˈkeːtə|pron}};<ref group="nb" name="NB_Pronunciation"/> born 8 May 1988 in [[Preetz]], Germany) is a German [[criminal]] who works for the German [[maritime search and rescue|sea rescue]] organisation [[Sea-Watch (organization)|Sea-Watch]].<ref name=":4"/> In June 2019, she was arrested for docking a migrant rescue ship without authorization in the port of [[Lampedusa]], Italy.
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| birth_name = Carola Rackete
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| party = [[Independent politician|Independent]] close to [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] (since 2023)
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| alma_mater = [[Edge Hill University]]<br>[[Jade University of Applied Sciences]]
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| occupation = [[Sea captain]] • [[Activist]] • [[Politician]]
| office1 = [[Member of the European Parliament]]<br />for [[Germany (European Parliament constituency)|Germany]]
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'''Carola Rackete''' ({{IPA|de|kaˈʁoːla ʁaˈkeːtə|pron}};<ref group="nb" name="NB_Pronunciation"/> born 8 May 1988) is a German [[Ecologist|conservation ecologist]], [[Activism|activist]], [[politician]] and former [[ship captain]]. She was elected to the [[European Parliament]] as an independent candidate for the Left Party on June 9, 2024.<ref>{{Cite news |last=O'Carroll |first=Lisa |date=2024-06-11 |title=Influencers, activists and an army general: new MEPs heading to European parliament |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/11/new-meps-heading-to-european-parliament |access-date=2024-09-02 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Rackete participated in several research expeditions to [[Antarctica]] and the [[Southern Ocean]] and is co-founder of the Antarctic Rights initiative. She also supported the [[Extinction Rebellion|Extinction Rebellion movement]] and took part in forest protests in [[Sweden]], as well as the occupations of the [[Hambach Forest]] and the Dannenrod Forest in [[Germany]]. Between 2016 and 2019, she occasionally volunteered for non-governmental sea rescue organisations in the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean.]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-02 |title=Spitzenkandidatin Carola Rackete |url=https://www.die-linke.de/europawahl/europawahlliste/carola-rackete/ |website=Die Linke}}</ref> In June 2019, she was arrested for docking a migrant rescue vessel without authorization in the port of [[Lampedusa]], [[Italy]]. The custodial judge considered Rackete’s actions as justified because she had a duty to save lives at sea and ruled that Rackete should not have been arrested. In 2021, the pending investigation was formally dismissed, since the state prosecutor didn‘t see reason to proceed to court.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-23 |title=Carola Rackete cleared of all charges: "She had a duty to bring migrants to safety" |url=https://www.unionesarda.it/en/italy/carola-rackete-cleared-of-all-charges-quot-she-had-a-duty-to-bring-migrants-to-safetyquot-i6xf3l2z |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=L'Unione Sarda English |language=en}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
Rackete was born in Preetz, near Kiel, Germany.<ref name=":4"/> She graduated high school in 2007, then studied at Maritime School at [[Jade University of Applied Sciences]] in [[Elsfleth]], earning a [[Bachelor of Science]] in [[nautical science]] and [[maritime transport]] in 2011.<ref name=":4"/> The [[Bachelor of Science|B.Sc.]] in Nautical science at [[Jade University of Applied Sciences|Jade University]] meets the written examination requirement for the captain's licence of the [[Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany]], which is later acquired on the basis of professional experience only.<ref name="JUAS_2019"/>
Rackete was born in Preetz, near Kiel, Germany.<ref name=":4"/> She graduated [[high school]] in 2007, then studied at Maritime School at [[Jade University of Applied Sciences]] in [[Elsfleth]], earning a [[Bachelor of Science]] in [[nautical science]] and [[maritime transport]] in 2011.<ref name=":4"/> The [[Bachelor of Science|B.Sc.]] in Nautical science at [[Jade University of Applied Sciences|Jade University]] meets the written examination requirement for the captain's licence of the [[Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany]], which is later acquired on the basis of professional experience only.<ref name="JUAS_2019"/>


In 2018 she earned a master's degree in conservation management from [[Edge Hill University]] in [[England]].<ref name=":4"/>
In 2018 she earned a master's degree in conservation management from [[Edge Hill University]] in England.<ref name=":4"/>


==Career==
==Career==
Rackete was a navigation officer for two years in scientific expeditions in the [[Arctic]] and the [[Antarctic]] for the [[Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research]].<ref name=":5"/>
Rackete was a navigation officer for two years in scientific expeditions in the [[Arctic]] and the [[Antarctic]] for the [[Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research]].<ref name=":5"/>


For a short period of time, she worked as a conservation volunteer within the [[Kronotsky Nature Reserve]] in the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]]. Later, Carola Rackete worked as safety officer for [[Silversea Cruises]], an ultra-luxury cruise line headquartered in [[Monaco]]. She later worked as second-officer on ships owned by [[Greenpeace]] and the [[British Antarctic Survey]].<ref name=":4"/>
She worked as a conservation volunteer for nine months as part of a European Volunteer Service within the [[Bystrinsky District|Bystrinsky Nature Reserve]] in the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] in Russia. Later, Carola Rackete worked for 10 weeks as safety officer for [[Silversea Cruises]], a luxury cruise line headquartered in Monaco. She later worked as second-officer and Chief Mate on ships owned by [[Greenpeace]] and the [[British Antarctic Survey]].<ref name=":4"/>


From 2015 to 2018 she studied [[Conservation management system|Conservation Management]] at [[Edge Hill University]] in [[Ormskirk]], England, graduating with a Masters.<ref>{{Cite web |last=DER STANDARD |date=2023-07-22 |title=Carola Rackete: Eine Kapitänin für das lahme linke Schiff |url=https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000179549/carola-rackete-eine-kapitaenin-fuer-das-lahme-linke-schiff |access-date=2024-09-03 |website= |language=de-AT}}</ref>
As of June 2019 Rackete captained {{ship||Sea-Watch 3}}, a vessel of 645 [[gross tonnage]], which flies a Dutch flag.<ref name="MT_2019"/>

Since completing her degree in conservation management in 2018, Rackete has been working as a conservation [[ecologist]] and [[Activism|activist]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carola Rackete: DIE LINKE. |url=https://www.die-linke.de/europawahl/europawahlliste/carola-rackete/ |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=Die Linke |language=de}}</ref> She supported the environmental movement [[Extinction Rebellion]] in its beginning and co-founded [[Extinction Rebellion]] [[Germany]] in [[Berlin]] in 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |last=WELT |date=2019-10-12 |title=Rackete zu Klimapolitik: Große Diskrepanz zwischen Parlamenten und Rest der Gesellschaft |url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article201777574/Carola-Rackete-Grosse-Diskrepanz-zwischen-Parlament-und-Gesellschaft.html |access-date=2024-09-03}}</ref> She was involved in the occupations of [[Hambach Forest]] and Dannenröder Forest in [[Germany]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lehnen |first=Claudia |date=2020-01-15 |title="Der Kapitalismus zerstört unsere Lebensgrundlage" |url=https://www.ksta.de/region/carola-rackete-im-hambacher-forst-der-kapitalismus-zerstoert-unsere-lebensgrundlage-186944 |access-date=2024-09-03 |work=Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Schipkowski |first=Katharina |date=2020-11-12 |title=Räumung im Dannenröder Wald: Carola Rackete vom Baum geholt |url=https://taz.de/Raeumung-im-Dannenroeder-Wald/!5728221/ |access-date=2024-09-02 |work=Die Tageszeitung: taz |language=de |issn=0931-9085}}</ref>

As part of the field research for her master's thesis, Rackete studied the development of the [[wandering albatross]] population in [[South Georgia]] between 2017 and 2018<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rackete |first1=Carola |last2=Poncet |first2=Sally |last3=Good |first3=Stephanie D. |last4=Phillips |first4=Richard A. |last5=Passfield |first5=Ken |last6=Trathan |first6=Philip |date=2021 |title=Variation among colonies in breeding success and population trajectories of wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans at South Georgia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348208449 |journal=Polar Biology|volume=44 |pages=221–227 |doi=10.1007/s00300-020-02780-6 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and took part in the long-term monitoring of [[seabird]]s and [[vegetation]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Poncet |first1=Sally |last2=Floyd |first2=Kelvin |last3=Passfield |first3=Ken |date=2020-02-18 |title=Long Term monitoring fieldwork 2017 – 2018. Report to Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |url=https://www.gov.gs/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/veg_monitoring2017_18.pdf}}</ref> In spring 2020, Rackete was part of a research cruise to the [[Antarctic]] conducted by [[Greenpeace]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Binder |first=Janet |date=2020-02-17 |title=Menschenrechts- und Umweltaktivistin Carola Rackete auf Greenpeace-Schiff "Arctic Sunrise" |url=https://www.greenpeace.de/klimaschutz/klimakrise/einsatz-suedpol |access-date=2024-09-03 |work=Greenpeace}}</ref> In 2023, she worked as a research assistant on a research expedition on [[fin whale]]s in the [[West Antarctica|West Antarctic]] conducted by the University of Hamburg.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Herr |first=Helena |title=Short Cruise Report RV Maria S. Merian MSM115 FINWAP Punta Arenas, Chile – Montevideo, Uruguay 25.2.2023 – 30.03.2023 |url=https://www.ldf.uni-hamburg.de/merian/wochenberichte/wochenberichte-merian/msm114-msm118/scr-msm115.pdf}}</ref> Rackete successfully campaigned against the Davis airport project in [[Antarctica]] with the [[Bob Brown Foundation]] and is committed to the long-term protection of [[Antarctica]] and its [[wildlife]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-08 |title=Bob Brown Foundation Announces Campaigners to Safeguard the Antarctic |url=https://www.ecovoice.com.au/bob-brown-foundation-announces-campaigners-to-safeguard-the-antarctic/ |archive-date= |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=EcoNews.com.au}}</ref> She is a co-founder of the ''Antarctic Rights initiative'' and one of the main initiators of the ''Antarctic Declaration,'' which calls for [[Antarctica]] to be recognised as a [[legal entity]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-02 |title=Antarctic Rights |url=https://antarcticrights.org/member/carola-rackete/}}</ref> In 2022, she took part in a protest by the indigenous Sámi population against deforestation in the Arctic and for the land rights of the [[Sámi peoples|Sámi]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Orange |first=Richard |date=2022-04-21 |title='Green industry wants to take our land': the Arctic paradox |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/21/green-industry-wants-to-take-our-land-the-new-battle-for-the-arctic |access-date=2024-09-03 |work=Guardian}}</ref>

In her podcast ‘Just Nature?’, Rackete talks about species [[extinction]] and the importance of [[justice]] in the global conservation movement.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rackete |first=Carola |date= |title=Just Nature? |url=https://justnature.buzzsprout.com |access-date=2024-09-02}}</ref>

In November 2021, Racket published the translation of her German environmental justice bestseller, The Time to Act is Now, with the [[Rosa Luxemburg Foundation|Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung]].<ref>[https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/45396/the-time-to-act-is-now The Time to Act Is Now] Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, accessed 2 September 2024</ref>


==''Sea-Watch 3'' incident of June 2019==
==''Sea-Watch 3'' incident of June 2019==
On 12 June,<ref name=":2"/> the ship picked up 53 migrants in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast. ''Sea-Watch 3'' rejected an offer to dock at [[Tripoli]], which is considered unsafe by the European Union and the humanitarian organizations, and headed toward Lampedusa. According to a map they posted,<ref name="SWI_2019"/> and also to a report by the [[Süddeutsche Zeitung]] and other [[non-governmental organizations]] (NGOs) this was the nearest safe harbor per [[maritime law]].<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":5"/> On 14 June, Italy closed its ports to migrant rescue ships.<ref name=":1"/> Italian interior minister [[Matteo Salvini]] refused to allow the ship to dock until other European nations had agreed to take the migrants.<ref name=":3"/> Ten of the migrants, including children, pregnant women, and those who were ill, were allowed to disembark.<ref name=":5"/> On 28 June, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal offered to take the migrants.<ref name=":3"/>
On 12 June,<ref name=":2"/> the ship picked up 53 migrants in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast. ''Sea-Watch 3'' rejected an offer to dock at [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]], which is considered unsafe by the European Union and the humanitarian organizations, and headed toward Lampedusa. According to a map they posted,<ref name="SWI_2019"/> and also to a report by the [[Süddeutsche Zeitung]] and other [[non-governmental organizations]] (NGOs) this was the nearest safe harbor per [[maritime law]].<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":5"/> On 14 June, Italy closed its ports to migrant rescue ships.<ref name=":1"/> Italian interior minister [[Matteo Salvini]] refused to allow the ship to dock until other European nations had agreed to take the migrants.<ref name=":3"/> Ten of the migrants, including children, pregnant women, and those who were ill, were allowed to disembark.<ref name=":5"/> On 28 June, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal offered to take the migrants.<ref name=":3"/>


On 29 June, without authorization, Rackete decided to dock.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":2"/> The motivation for this was that according to her the passengers were exhausted.<ref name=":1"/> Rackete was arrested by the Italian authorities after docking.<ref name=":5"/><ref name=":6"/><ref name="YT_2019"/>
On 29 June, without authorization, Rackete decided to dock.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":2"/> The motivation for this was that according to her the passengers were exhausted.<ref name=":1"/> Rackete was arrested by the Italian authorities after docking.<ref name=":5"/><ref name=":6"/><ref name="YT_2019"/>
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Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini accused Rackete of trying to sink an Italian patrol boat that was trying to intercept her and that her ship collided with, calling the incident an act of war and demanding the Netherlands intervene.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":6"/>
Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini accused Rackete of trying to sink an Italian patrol boat that was trying to intercept her and that her ship collided with, calling the incident an act of war and demanding the Netherlands intervene.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":6"/>


Italian Prime Minister [[Giuseppe Conte]] "scrambled to address the matter" at the [[2019 G20 Osaka summit]].<ref name=":7"/> Germany protested the arrest.<ref name=":7"/> Crowdfunding appeals in Italy and Germany had raised over €1 million as of 1 July for Sea-Watch legal defense.<ref name=":7"/> ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' called Rackete the "fresh new face" of the [[European migrant crisis]].<ref name=":7"/>
Italian Prime Minister [[Giuseppe Conte]] "scrambled to address the matter" at the [[2019 G20 Osaka summit]].<ref name=":7"/> Germany protested against the arrest.<ref name=":7"/> Crowdfunding appeals in Italy and Germany had raised over €1 million as of 1 July for Sea-Watch legal defence.<ref name=":7"/> ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' called Rackete the "fresh new face" of the [[European migrant crisis]].<ref name=":7"/>


''Sea-Watch 3'' has a mainly German crew but sailed under Dutch flag.<ref name="NRC3july"/> In the Netherlands, main government party [[People's Party for Freedom and Democracy|VVD]] stated that NGOs that deliberately without permission pick up people should be convicted for facilitating human trafficking.<ref name="Boon_2019"/> Spokesman [[Jeroen van Wijngaarden]] said that: "They are factually not a rescue service but a ferry service."<ref name="Gelderlander_2019"/> Within the Dutch coalition government, they got support from the [[Christian Democratic Appeal|CDA]], and in the Dutch parliament there basically was a majority that supported this. Nevertheless, the two other parties in the coalition government protested strongly against this statement.<ref name="NOS_2019"/><ref name="NRC3july"/>
''Sea-Watch 3'' has a mainly German crew but sailed under Dutch flag.<ref name="NRC3july"/> In the Netherlands, main government party [[People's Party for Freedom and Democracy|VVD]] stated that NGOs that deliberately without permission pick up people should be convicted for facilitating human trafficking.<ref name="Boon_2019"/> Spokesman [[Jeroen van Wijngaarden]] said that: "They are factually not a rescue service but a ferry service."<ref name="Gelderlander_2019"/> Within the Dutch coalition government, they got support from the [[Christian Democratic Appeal|CDA]], and in the Dutch parliament there basically was a majority that supported this. Nevertheless, the two other parties in the coalition government protested strongly against this statement.<ref name="NOS_2019"/><ref name="NRC3july"/>
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As of July 2019, Rackete was under investigation by Italian authorities for possible criminal activities in regards to undocumented migration. If convicted, Rackete would have faced up to 15 years in prison.<ref name=":9"/> In January 2020, on appeal the [[Supreme Court of Cassation (Italy)|Italian Supreme Court of Cassation]] ruled that Rackete should never have been arrested.
As of July 2019, Rackete was under investigation by Italian authorities for possible criminal activities in regards to undocumented migration. If convicted, Rackete would have faced up to 15 years in prison.<ref name=":9"/> In January 2020, on appeal the [[Supreme Court of Cassation (Italy)|Italian Supreme Court of Cassation]] ruled that Rackete should never have been arrested.

On 10 September 2019 she was awarded with the [[Medal of Honor of the Parliament of Catalonia]], given by the president of the [[Catalan Parliament]], in recognition for her humanitarian work.<ref name="CAT"/> In October 2020, Carola Rakete was awarded the first {{ill|Karl Küpper|de}} award.<ref name="Taab_2020"/> On 6 May 2021, two days before her 33rd birthday, she was awarded a [[doctor honoris causa]] from the [[University of Namur]] in [[Belgium]].<ref name="DHC_UNamur_2021"/>

On May 19, 2021 a court in [[Agrigento]] ruled that no trial should be held, agreeing with a state prosecutor that the actions had been undertaken in an effort to save the lives of the migrants.<ref name="Reuters_2021"/>

== Political engagement ==
In July 2023, Rackete and the federal leadership of [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] announced that the independent Carola Rackete would be one of the party's top candidate for the [[2024 European Parliament election|2024 European elections]].<ref name=":8">{{Cite news |last=Beucker |first=Pascal |date=2023-07-17 |title=Aktivistin als EU-Spitzenkandidatin: Linke zündet Rackete |language=de |work=Die Tageszeitung: taz |url=https://taz.de/!5944965/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |issn=0931-9085}}</ref> The Left is a [[Democratic socialism|democratic socialist]] political party descended from the Marxist-Leninist [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]]. Rackete suggested that the party should consider distancing itself from its [[stalinism|Stalinist]] past but apologized for this demand after receiving intense criticism from the party.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lehmann |first=Timo |date=2023-11-17 |title=Rackete verlangt von Linkspartei SED-Aufarbeitung |language=de |work=DER SPIEGEL |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/parteitag-carola-rackete-schlaegt-vor-linke-umzubenennen-a-56539caf-b1fe-47b6-bde6-ef11f6f1a321 |access-date=2023-12-16| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231217034014/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/parteitag-carola-rackete-schlaegt-vor-linke-umzubenennen-a-56539caf-b1fe-47b6-bde6-ef11f6f1a321 |archive-date=December 17, 2023}}</ref> She said at her presentation that she wanted to give the [[social movement]]s a parliamentary voice. The [[climate crisis]] is the result of capitalist exploitation and it is the biggest crisis of justice in the world, she said.<ref name=":8" /> As an independent candidate for the European Parliament, Rackete is committed to climate and social justice. She campaigns for affordable renewable energy for all, a just restructuring of the economy and the preservation and restoration of nature.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-02 |title=Carola Rackete |url=https://carolarackete.eu/en/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Conolly |first=Kate |date=2024-01-16 |title=Will we leave things to the fascists?: the activist aiming to revive Germany's far-left party |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/16/carola-rackete-activist-aiming-to-revive-germany-far-left-die-linke-party |access-date=2024-09-02 |work=Guardian}}</ref>


==Notes==
==Notes==
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refn|group="nb"|name="NB_Pronunciation"|''Rackete'' (originally derived from {{lang|fr|Raquette}} or {{lang|it|Rachetta}}) is a very rare surname in Germany, consequently there is no universally accepted standard pronunciation. Applying normal German pronunciation rules, the name would have to be pronounced as {{lang|de|Rackete}} ({{IPA-de|ˈʁaketə|IPA}}), but Carola Rackete's name is instead pronounced identical to the normal German noun {{lang|de|[[Rocket|Rakete]]}} ({{IPA-de|ʁaˈkeːtə|IPA}}), which is also rare as a surname.<ref name="Becker_2019"/>}}
refn|group="nb"|name="NB_Pronunciation"|''Rackete'' (originally derived from {{lang|fr|Raquette}} or {{lang|it|Rachetta}}) is a very rare surname in Germany, consequently there is no universally accepted standard pronunciation. Applying normal German pronunciation rules, the name would have to be pronounced as {{lang|de|Rackete}} ({{IPA|de|ˈʁaketə|IPA}}), but Carola Rackete's name is instead pronounced identical to the normal German noun {{lang|de|[[Rocket|Rakete]]}} ({{IPA|de|ʁaˈkeːtə|IPA}}), which is also rare as a surname.<ref name="Becker_2019"/>}}
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<ref name=":4">{{cite news |title=Wer ist Carola Rackete? |date=2019-06-29 |language=de |newspaper=[[Kieler Nachrichten]] (KN) |url=https://www.kn-online.de/Kiel/Sea-Watch-3-Wer-ist-Kapitaen-Carola-Rackete |access-date=2019-06-29}}</ref>
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<ref name="EURONEWS3jul2019">{{cite web |title=Sea Watch captain Carola Rackete released, but controversy rages on |date=2019-07-03 |website=EuroNews |url=https://www.euronews.com/2019/07/03/sea-watch-captain-carola-rackete-released-but-controversy-rages-on |access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref>
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<ref name="Balmer_2019">{{cite news |author-first=Crispian |author-last=Balmer |title=German rescue captain to sue Italy's Salvini over migrant comments |work=[[Reuters]] |date=2019-07-05 |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/migrant-boat-captain-carola-rackete-sues-salvini-over-pirate-insult-glp0lrp6h |access-date=2019-07-12}}</ref>
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<ref name="RaiNews_2019">{{cite news |title=Sea Watch. Depositata querela Rackete contro Salvini. Legale: "Temiamo per la sua incolumità" |date=2019-07-12 |language=it |publisher=[[RAI]] |trans-title=Rackete lawsuit against Salvini filed. Lawyer: "We are worried for her safety" |url=http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/sea-watch-depositata-querela-rackete-contro-salvini-legale-temiamo-per-sua-incolumita-6fdd6bad-f3f6-4493-9f6e-5123f9e5801b.html |access-date=}}</ref>
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<ref name="SWI_2019">{{cite web |title=@SeaWatchItaly |author=Sea-Watch Italy |date=2019-07-14 |website=Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/seawatchitaly/status/1139536430374490112 |access-date=2019-07-15}}</ref>
<ref name="SWI_2019">{{cite web |title=@SeaWatchItaly |author=Sea-Watch Italy |date=2019-07-14 |website=Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/seawatchitaly/status/1139536430374490112 |access-date=2019-07-15}}</ref>
<ref name=":9">{{cite web |title=Rescue vessel Sea-Watch captain questioned in Italy over migrants |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/german-ship-sea-watch-3-captain-faces-court-migrant-rescue-190718183258982.html |access-date=}}</ref>
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<ref name="Euronews_20190821">{{cite web |title=Captain of migrant rescue vessel refuses honour from Paris |author-first=Forrest |author-last=Crellin |date=2019-08-21 |website=EuroNews |url=https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/21/captain-of-migrant-rescue-vessel-refuses-honour-from-paris}}</ref>
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<ref name="CAT">{{cite web |title=Òscar Camps i Carola Rackete reben la Medalla d'Honor del Parlament |date=2019-09-10 |website=CCMA.cat |url=https://www.ccma.cat/324/guardiola-entrega-les-medalles-dhonor-del-parlament-a-oscar-camps-i-carola-rackete/noticia/2946671/ |language= ca |access-date= 2019-09-10}}</ref>
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Carola Rackete
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 July 2024
Personal details
Born
Carola Rackete

(1988-05-08) 8 May 1988 (age 36)
Preetz, West Germany
Political partyIndependent close to The Left (since 2023)
Alma materEdge Hill University
Jade University of Applied Sciences
OccupationSea captain • Activist • Politician
AwardsMedalla d'Honor del Parlament de Catalunya (2019)
Medal of the City of Paris (2019)

Carola Rackete (pronounced [kaˈʁoːla ʁaˈkeːtə];[nb 1] born 8 May 1988) is a German conservation ecologist, activist, politician and former ship captain. She was elected to the European Parliament as an independent candidate for the Left Party on June 9, 2024.[1]

Rackete participated in several research expeditions to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and is co-founder of the Antarctic Rights initiative. She also supported the Extinction Rebellion movement and took part in forest protests in Sweden, as well as the occupations of the Hambach Forest and the Dannenrod Forest in Germany. Between 2016 and 2019, she occasionally volunteered for non-governmental sea rescue organisations in the Mediterranean.[2] In June 2019, she was arrested for docking a migrant rescue vessel without authorization in the port of Lampedusa, Italy. The custodial judge considered Rackete’s actions as justified because she had a duty to save lives at sea and ruled that Rackete should not have been arrested. In 2021, the pending investigation was formally dismissed, since the state prosecutor didn‘t see reason to proceed to court.[3]

Early life

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Rackete was born in Preetz, near Kiel, Germany.[4] She graduated high school in 2007, then studied at Maritime School at Jade University of Applied Sciences in Elsfleth, earning a Bachelor of Science in nautical science and maritime transport in 2011.[4] The B.Sc. in Nautical science at Jade University meets the written examination requirement for the captain's licence of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany, which is later acquired on the basis of professional experience only.[5]

In 2018 she earned a master's degree in conservation management from Edge Hill University in England.[4]

Career

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Rackete was a navigation officer for two years in scientific expeditions in the Arctic and the Antarctic for the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.[6]

She worked as a conservation volunteer for nine months as part of a European Volunteer Service within the Bystrinsky Nature Reserve in the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. Later, Carola Rackete worked for 10 weeks as safety officer for Silversea Cruises, a luxury cruise line headquartered in Monaco. She later worked as second-officer and Chief Mate on ships owned by Greenpeace and the British Antarctic Survey.[4]

From 2015 to 2018 she studied Conservation Management at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, England, graduating with a Masters.[7]

Since completing her degree in conservation management in 2018, Rackete has been working as a conservation ecologist and activist.[8] She supported the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion in its beginning and co-founded Extinction Rebellion Germany in Berlin in 2019.[9] She was involved in the occupations of Hambach Forest and Dannenröder Forest in Germany.[10][11]

As part of the field research for her master's thesis, Rackete studied the development of the wandering albatross population in South Georgia between 2017 and 2018[12] and took part in the long-term monitoring of seabirds and vegetation.[13] In spring 2020, Rackete was part of a research cruise to the Antarctic conducted by Greenpeace.[14] In 2023, she worked as a research assistant on a research expedition on fin whales in the West Antarctic conducted by the University of Hamburg.[15] Rackete successfully campaigned against the Davis airport project in Antarctica with the Bob Brown Foundation and is committed to the long-term protection of Antarctica and its wildlife.[16] She is a co-founder of the Antarctic Rights initiative and one of the main initiators of the Antarctic Declaration, which calls for Antarctica to be recognised as a legal entity.[17] In 2022, she took part in a protest by the indigenous Sámi population against deforestation in the Arctic and for the land rights of the Sámi.[18]

In her podcast ‘Just Nature?’, Rackete talks about species extinction and the importance of justice in the global conservation movement.[19]

In November 2021, Racket published the translation of her German environmental justice bestseller, The Time to Act is Now, with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.[20]

Sea-Watch 3 incident of June 2019

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On 12 June,[21] the ship picked up 53 migrants in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast. Sea-Watch 3 rejected an offer to dock at Tripoli, which is considered unsafe by the European Union and the humanitarian organizations, and headed toward Lampedusa. According to a map they posted,[22] and also to a report by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) this was the nearest safe harbor per maritime law.[23][6] On 14 June, Italy closed its ports to migrant rescue ships.[24] Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini refused to allow the ship to dock until other European nations had agreed to take the migrants.[25] Ten of the migrants, including children, pregnant women, and those who were ill, were allowed to disembark.[6] On 28 June, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal offered to take the migrants.[25]

On 29 June, without authorization, Rackete decided to dock.[23][21] The motivation for this was that according to her the passengers were exhausted.[24] Rackete was arrested by the Italian authorities after docking.[6][26][27]

Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini accused Rackete of trying to sink an Italian patrol boat that was trying to intercept her and that her ship collided with, calling the incident an act of war and demanding the Netherlands intervene.[23][26]

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte "scrambled to address the matter" at the 2019 G20 Osaka summit.[28] Germany protested against the arrest.[28] Crowdfunding appeals in Italy and Germany had raised over €1 million as of 1 July for Sea-Watch legal defence.[28] Fortune called Rackete the "fresh new face" of the European migrant crisis.[28]

Sea-Watch 3 has a mainly German crew but sailed under Dutch flag.[29] In the Netherlands, main government party VVD stated that NGOs that deliberately without permission pick up people should be convicted for facilitating human trafficking.[30] Spokesman Jeroen van Wijngaarden said that: "They are factually not a rescue service but a ferry service."[31] Within the Dutch coalition government, they got support from the CDA, and in the Dutch parliament there basically was a majority that supported this. Nevertheless, the two other parties in the coalition government protested strongly against this statement.[32][29]

Eventually, Rackete was released from house arrest after a court ruling that she had broken no laws and acted to protect passengers' safety.[33][34][35] Rackete's lawyer filed a lawsuit against Salvini for defamation on social media, alleging that he incited his followers to threaten her.[36]

The council of the City of Paris on 12 July 2019 announced that the two captains of Sea-Watch 3, Pia Klemp and Carola Rackete, will receive the Grand Vermeil Medal, the top award of the City of Paris, for saving migrants at sea, because the two captains symbolized "solidarity for the respect of human lives".[37] Both refused the medal, defining this decision "hypocritical". Klempt wrote in a statement: "You want to award me a medal...because our crews 'work' to rescue migrants from difficult conditions on a daily basis. At the same time your police steal blankets from people you force to live on the streets while you suppress protests and criminalise people who defend the rights of migrants and asylum seekers."[38]

As of July 2019, Rackete was under investigation by Italian authorities for possible criminal activities in regards to undocumented migration. If convicted, Rackete would have faced up to 15 years in prison.[39] In January 2020, on appeal the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation ruled that Rackete should never have been arrested.

On 10 September 2019 she was awarded with the Medal of Honor of the Parliament of Catalonia, given by the president of the Catalan Parliament, in recognition for her humanitarian work.[40] In October 2020, Carola Rakete was awarded the first Karl Küpper [de] award.[41] On 6 May 2021, two days before her 33rd birthday, she was awarded a doctor honoris causa from the University of Namur in Belgium.[42]

On May 19, 2021 a court in Agrigento ruled that no trial should be held, agreeing with a state prosecutor that the actions had been undertaken in an effort to save the lives of the migrants.[43]

Political engagement

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In July 2023, Rackete and the federal leadership of The Left announced that the independent Carola Rackete would be one of the party's top candidate for the 2024 European elections.[44] The Left is a democratic socialist political party descended from the Marxist-Leninist Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Rackete suggested that the party should consider distancing itself from its Stalinist past but apologized for this demand after receiving intense criticism from the party.[45] She said at her presentation that she wanted to give the social movements a parliamentary voice. The climate crisis is the result of capitalist exploitation and it is the biggest crisis of justice in the world, she said.[44] As an independent candidate for the European Parliament, Rackete is committed to climate and social justice. She campaigns for affordable renewable energy for all, a just restructuring of the economy and the preservation and restoration of nature.[46][47]

Notes

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  1. ^ Rackete (originally derived from Raquette or Rachetta) is a very rare surname in Germany, consequently there is no universally accepted standard pronunciation. Applying normal German pronunciation rules, the name would have to be pronounced as Rackete (IPA: [ˈʁaketə]), but Carola Rackete's name is instead pronounced identical to the normal German noun Rakete (IPA: [ʁaˈkeːtə]), which is also rare as a surname.[48]

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