Migrants boarded on Italian Navy ship. Will they be transported to Malta or Libya?
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Corriere della Sera : “The Minister of the Interior insists with the hard line of the closed ports. New contacts with the Quirinale, and a promise: to make the institutional role prevail over that of the leader of a populist force.”
A freely translated report from Corriere Della Sera says that after a long tug-of-war with Malta, the Italian government brought in the Guardia di Finanza Patrol boat and the captaincy authority to escort the fishing boat.
According to Corriere della Sera source sthe decision of the transhipment was made not to be accused of non-rescue.
The port of disembarkation will have to be chosen by the Minister Salvini and by Danilo Toninelli, Minister of Infrastructures and Transport of the Italian Republic, and at the moment on the point “everything is stopped”.
The Coast Guard has completed the coordination activity and so now the Viminale has to decide what to do with respect to the choice of the port.
The hypothesis is to go “south” then to Malta or Libya.
There is a precedent that goes back to the Maroni government when a ship of the Guardia di Finanza brought migrants back to Libya and this was considered a rejection that is prohibited by international conventions and by treaties to which Italy adheres.
