No Brenner barriers unless necessary - Sobotka

(ANSAmed) - Berlin, April 29 - Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said Friday that "we are preparing structures at the frontier but we will not introduce barriers as long as the situation does not require that". He was speaking with German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere of the "highly sensitive border" at the Brenner pass with Italy. Italy is "far from" being overwhelmed by migrants and would only need help if some 350,000 were to arrive, de Maiziere said. Italy is not afraid of the prospect of Austria building a fence at the Brenner Pass but there is not reason for Vienna to build one, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said. "Italy certainly isn't a country that lets itself get scared by a (fence)," he said. He said "we are working hard to control Italian itineraries so there is neither the motive not the excuse, not the pretext to build that fence".