The initiative is being promoted by the fascist youth organization Generation Identity, which is organized mainly in Germany. Despite the use of the alt-right or alternative right-wing label, it is a collective that cultivates the ideas of Nazism: the supremacy of the whites, the “defense of Europe” and the campaigns against migration are its symbol. An elaborate communication strategy and innovative discourses and aesthetics have led to the rise of fascism in Europe, and this movement is just another symbol.

They want to use the same technique that Greenpeace uses to block whalers or nuclear submarines against migrants. In this case it is not a symbolic act, and its purpose is to return those who take them alive to the Libyan coast.

The initiative has been called the “Identity Search and Rescue Mission” and is intended to be launched in July under the slogan “Defend Europe”. Crowdfunding has been launched to take the ship out, raising $54,000 through 658 collaborators.