Italian police have identified
a group of 34 Eritreans at the town of Ventimiglia, on the
Italian-French border, who were in Italy after being rescued by
the Diciotti coast guard ship.
Around 40 Diciotti migrants recently went missing from a
Church-run migrant centre at at Rocca Di Papa, south of Rome,
after being transferred from the Diciotti.
The migrants were moved to the centre along with around 60
others after a standoff between Interior Minister Matteo Salvini
and the EU.
Salvini, who is accused of kidnapping them, kept them aboard
the Diciotti for 10 days saying they would not land until the EU
agreed to take them in.
In the end Catholic bishops agreed to take 100 while Ireland
and Albania said they would take 20 each.
The Diciotti Eritreans were identified in a group of 51
travelling on a bus to a Red Cross centre at Ventimiglia as they
seek to enter France.
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