Italian judge says German migrant rescue captain free to go An Italian judge said Tuesday that Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete was free to go, three days after her arrest for docking with 40 migrants aboard her rescue ship in defiance of an Italian ban. German Rackete was arrested after hitting a police speed boat while entering the port of the southern island of Lampedusa in her vessel, which had been banned from docking by Italian authorities. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES.