“They can be treated, dressed and fed,” Salvini said. He added: “But they will not set foot in Italy with my permission.”
Italian deputy premier and interior minister Matteo Salvini attends a soccer match between AC Milan and Inter Milan at Giuseppe Meazza stadium in Milan on Sunday. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 19 at 8:05 AM Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister and interior minister, said Tuesday that 49 asylum seekers rescued in the Mediterranean will not be allowed to enter the country.
“They can be treated, dressed and fed,” Salvini told Italian news channel SkyTG24. “We can give them any kind of comfort, but they will not set foot in Italy with my permission.”His office also released an eight-page directive, which called the “passage of rescue ships in Italian territorial waters . . . detrimental to the order and security of the Italian State.”
Salvini also said that other European countries should do more for asylum seekers, a reminder that Salvini became interior minister after an influx of migrants and asylum seekers. European Union rules leaving the countries of entry to determine who is qualified for political asylum meant that Italy, along with Spain and Greece, were left to grapple with an influx of refugees in a way other European countries were not.
But Salvini, who is the leader of the anti-migrant League party , said in his directive that ships rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean do not have the right to Italian ports or to Italy.“But maritime law is clear,” tweeted Vincent Cochetel, special envoy of the United Nations’ refugee agency for the Central Mediterranean situation. “Libya is not a place of safety . Italy and other Med countries are places of safety.
Italy's Salvini lays down law for migrant rescue ships. But maritime law is clear. Libya is not a place of safety . Italy and other Med countries are places of safety. https://t.co/kmbQCmq4hF
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