France suspends deal to take in thousands of asylum-seekers currently in Italy after row over ship | CNN

The diplomatic fallout between France and Italy over a stranded migrant ship in the Mediterranean Sea is far from over

The French government on Thursday suspended a deal to take 3,500 asylum-seekers currently in Italy, as Paris criticized the newly appointed right-wing Italian government of Prime Minister Georgia Meloni for not accepting passengers from the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship. Italy has not allowed the vessel to dock in its territory, leaving in limbo some 230 passengers who were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea.

” “This is a bitter sense of relief because it’s 20 days too many for those on board who now have to start rebuilding their lives,” Eliot Guy, a spokesman for SOS Mediterranee, the NGO operating the Ocean Viking rescue ship, told CNN on the phone, after France announced it would allow the vessel to dock in its territory. Guy confirmed that three people in need or urgent medical attention had been transported via helicopter to a hospital in France on Thursday.

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