(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 8 - France will open the port of Marseille
to the Ocean Viking, one of three NGO run migrant rescue ships
currently in a standoff with Italy over disembarking migrants, a
French interior ministry source told ANSA Tuesday.
France "is gearing to open the port of Marseille to the Ocean
Viking ship, either in the night of Wednesday-Thursday or in the
day of Thursday," the source said.
"It will depend on when it leaves the southern Mediterranean".
The Ocean Viking, a humanitarian ship chartered since July 2019
by the French SOS Méditerranée association, has been at sea
waiting to be assigned a port of safety for almost three weeks
with 234 people on board.
Two other charity ships are in Catania port having been allowed
to land only the most vulnerable of their human cargo. (ANSA).
France will open Marseille to Ocean Viking (7)
Either on Wednesday night or Thursday says interior min source
