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We'll block Sea Watch and others says Salvini

Open ports policy has turned Med into mass grave

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Bergamo, May 13 - Italy will block migrant rescue NGOs like Sea Watch from landing in Italian ports, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini reiterated Monday.
    "The open ports policy has turned the Mediterranean into a mass grave with 15,000 deaths," he said.
    "Now, to take one example, if the Sea Watch ship were to collect immigrants in Libyan or Maltese waters and want to come to Italy, we would block it with all the legal measures we have at our disposal".
    Salvini has clamped down on migrant NGO migrant rescue ships and turned several away over the last few months.
   

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