Italian police on Monday seized a German migrant rescue ship that had been stran...
MILAN - Italian police on Monday seized a German migrant rescue ship that had been stranded at sea for a week with more than 100 migrants aboard, and will disembark the migrants soon, a police spokesman said.
The ship’s captain had earlier set course for the port of Pozzallo, on the island of Sicily, sparking a new standoff between rescuers and Italy’s interior minister just as he looks set to lose his job. “The ship was seized and migrants will be disembarked around midday ,” said a spokesman for Italy’s financial police in Rome, which is dealing with the case.
A succession of charity vessels have struggled over the past year to bring migrants rescued at sea to Italian shores as Salvini has taken a tough line.
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