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.
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