France cautions Italy over migrant issues
Date
11/13/2022 4:51:10 AM
(MENAFN) Italy is going to face repercussions if it continues to send away migrants who have been saved from the Mediterranean Sea, according to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.
The Ocean Viking, a ship carrying 234 migrants who had been saved at sea, was forbidden from entering Italian ports last month by the new Rome administration. This action, according to Colonna, is a "strong disappointment," she claimed in a Saturday interview with the newspaper Le Parisien. She continued, "The decision is shocking."
She continued, arguing that the nearest port, an Italian one, had to take the ship carrying stranded migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, “Italy respects neither international nor maritime law.”
Foreign Minister declared France had to permit the ship to dock. On Friday, the Ocean Viking, run by the French organization SOS Mediterranee, arrived in the port of Toulon in southeast France, “because of Italy’s stubborn refusal and lack of humanity.”
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