Conte announces that people on board SeaWatch are to be disembarked ‘within hours’

The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that “In a few hours the disembarkation of the migrants on board Sea Watch begins.”

Conte announced this while there is still expectations of the official order by the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini following the agreement signed by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte . 

The agreement provides for distribution in the European countries at the end of the identification procedures. The list also includes Luxembourg as well as Germany, France, Portugal, Romania and Malta.