MILAN - Italy's new far-right led government adopted a measure Friday formalizing the closure of its ports to rescue ships run by humanitarian groups as four vessels with more than 1,000 migrants continued to press for a safe port.

Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi told reporters Italy would allow a German migrant rescue ship to arrive in Sicily to land minors and those with medical emergencies, but he said the ship must then return to international waters with the rest of the migrants.

Piantedosi said the German-flagged Humanity 1, carrying 179 people, “forced the situation by entering into territorial waters.” But he emphasized Italy's position that it is the flag country of each charity-operated ship that must intervene to provide a safe port - and not Italy.

The posture adopted by Premier Giorgia Meloni's new government marks a return to the anti-NGO position adopted by Matteo Salvini, now a deputy premier, when he was interior minister in 2018-2019.

Salvini, currently the infrastructure minister in charge of ports, welcomed the new decree in a Facebook post, saying it would ensure that “foreign ships cannot arrive solely in Italy with their illegal immigrants.”

Humanitarian groups caring for the rescued migrants on four ships in the central Mediterranean have sounded the alarm about deteriorating conditions, including people sleeping on floors in the cold and spreading fevers. The migrants rescued at sea have mostly travelled through Libya, often being subjected to torture by human traffickers along the way, as they seek a better life in Europe.

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Long overdue
Africa migrants should stay back and develop their country..
All these insults black people are getting from these bigoted white supremacists isn't worth it

Mercury12:
Long overdue
Africa migrants should stay back back develop their country..
All these insults black people are getting from these bigoted white supremacists isn't worth it

I agree.

Mercury12:
Long overdue
Africa migrants should stay back and develop their country..
All these insults black people are getting from these bigoted white supremacists isn't worth it

Africa can't be developed without getting independent

RestructureNig1:


Africa can't be developed without getting independent

Independent from who?

tamdun:

Independent from who?

From the West, Nigeria for example was given independent, they didn't take it by force