No migrant relocations unless Italy takes ships says France

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 25 - There will be no migrant relocations By France or Germany unless Italy takes in migrant ships seeking a safe port according to international law, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said upon arrival at the extraordinary EU interior ministers council on immigration in Brussels Friday.
    "If Italy does not take the ships and does not accept the law of the sea and the safest port there is no reason that the countries doing the relocations are France and Germany, who are the ones taking the ships and are the same ones that directly receive migrants from Africa and from Asia," he said.
    The council was called after a spat between Italy and France over a French NGO run ship, the Ocean Viking, which eventually docked in Toulon with some 230 migrants aboard, in a first for France in the Med, after Rome refused it permission to enter Italian waters. (ANSA).