Germany has asked the European Union to find a safe port where a German humanitarian ship carrying 64 migrants in the Mediterranean can dock, following appeals from the aid group and the refusal by Italy or Malta to let them land.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said his ministry sent a letter Thursday to the German government telling them the ship cannot dock in Italy and asking them to intervene.
"The agreement with the federal Government was that the families would be evacuated," the Sea-Eye said in a tweet."We will not be actively separating families! This is an emotional torture and endangers the best Interests of the children." The Italian minister, speaking Friday at a G-7 ministers' meeting in France, reaffirmed his anti-migrant stance, saying"that clearly not all NGOs, but some of them, are accomplices" in human trafficking.
Malta and Italy have been refusing to open their ports to humanitarian rescue ships, saying that the repeated rescues of migrants at sea encourages smugglers to pack them into unseaworthy rubber dinghies before they head out for Europe.
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