Italian right-wing leader Matteo Salvini on Thursday told Berlin to take respons...
ROME - Italian right-wing leader Matteo Salvini on Thursday told Berlin to take responsibility for 64 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by a German charity boat and heading toward the Italian coast in rough seas.
As interior minister and deputy prime minister, Salvini has led a crackdown on illegal immigration by closing Italian ports to humanitarian vessels since his League party formed a coalition last year with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement. The Alan Kurdi vessel run by the German charity Sea-Eye rescued the migrants on Wednesday off Libya. They include 12 women, an 11-month-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, a Sea-Eye source said.
“We are currently in contact with the German authorities, looking for a solution. We are heading to Lampedusa to avoid bad weather in Malta”, the Sea-Eye source said.
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