Italy defends blocking migrants, sending message to EU

ROME, 10 November 2022, (TON): reports said “Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday defended allowing only the most vulnerable migrants to disembark from rescue ships, saying they are “not shipwrecked but migrants.”

According to media reports “she also said the decision by health authorities to subsequently let hundreds of people off two charity vessels docked in Sicily was bizarre.”

Meloni was speaking to lawmakers from her far-right Brothers of Italy party, amid fierce criticism and a row with France over her hard-right government’s treatment of migrants rescued by charity ships from the central Mediterranean.

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