ROME Dozens of migrants rescued at sea and brought to an Italian port on Thursday cannot disembark, the country's far-right interior minister said, reversing a decision by a fellow minister and opening a rift within the government. Just a few hours earlier, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli had authorised a coast guard ship carrying 67 migrants rescued off Libya to enter the port of Trapani in Western Sicily."I will not authorise (their disembarkation)," Salvini told a news conference following a meeting of EU interior ministers in Innsbruck, Austria. (Reuters)
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Italy minister blocks migrants on ship
Jul 13, 2018
ROME Dozens of migrants rescued at sea and brought to an Italian port on Thursday cannot disembark, the country's far-right interior minister said, reversing a decision by a fellow minister and opening a rift within the government. Just a few hours earlier, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli had authorised a coast guard ship carrying 67 migrants rescued off Libya to enter the port of Trapani in Western Sicily."I will not authorise (their disembarkation)," Salvini told a news conference following a meeting of EU interior ministers in Innsbruck, Austria. (Reuters)