Premier Giuseppe Conte said
Wednesday that his government has stopped the "indiscriminate"
entry of migrants into Italy as he reported to the Senate on the
case of the asylum seekers saved by the Diciotti coast guard
ship.
Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini is under
investigation for alleged aggravated kidnapping after he refused
to allow over 100 migrants to disembark the Diciotti during a
10-day stand of with the EU.
In the end Catholic bishops agreed to take 100 while Ireland
and Albania said they would take 20 each.
"What has changed with respect to the past is that Italy is
no longer willing to receive migrants indiscriminately,
contributing, albeit involuntarily, to increasing the traffic of
human beings," Conte said.
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