Change tack says Salvini of NGO boat heading for Italy

(ANSA) - Alghero, February 19 - Interior Minister Matteo Salvini tweeted Tuesday "there's a German NGO (ship) off Libya heading our way: it must change direction".
    Salvini was referring to the Sea Eye which set off from Majorca three days ago heading for Libyan territorial waters.
    It has been renamed Alan Kurdi after the three-year-old Syrian boy who was found drowned on a Turkish beach in 2015.
    Salvini has closed Italy's ports to NGO migrant rescue vessels.