Rabitz recounted a case from 2015 of a sixteen-year-old Guinean stowaway who was found aboard a Danish tanker. The stowaway refused to disembark or provide his name or country of origin. The shipping company declined to have him forcefully removed in part because it could not figure out where to send him. In a case like this, the roles of captor and captive get confusing, Rabitz said. The stowaway is trapped while also holding the ship hostage.
