Charity ship says migrants' safety at risk, Italy to allow minors off

A charity that operates a rescue ship carrying 134 migrants off the coast of Ita...

LAMPEDUSA/BARCELONA - A charity that operates a rescue ship carrying 134 migrants off the coast of Italy said on Saturday that it could not guarantee their security, after the boat had spent more than two weeks waiting for a port to disembark in.

Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has ordered his officials not to let them do so, although on Saturday he made a partial concession, saying he would allow any children to leave the boat. He added that he had only agreed to this at the insistence of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.It also said that the 16 days waiting for a port to disembark in had taken their toll on the migrants, with frequent fights breaking about among them and conditions on board deteriorating.

France, Germany, Romania, Portugal, Spain and Luxembourg have said they will help relocate the migrants, but the reaction from Salvini’s interior ministry has been skeptical. “Permission to disembark for these people is the sole responsibility of Prime Minister Conte,” Salvini said, insisting that “the great majority of Italians” shared his own hard-line stance in closing Italy’s ports to charity ships.Camps blamed politicians for the standoff.

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