Italy has closed its ports to two ships belonging to non-governmental organisations that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said.
The Prime Minister explained on his Twitter account that "Italy begins to say no to human trafficking, No to the business of illegal immigration".
On June 11, the Spanish government decided to allow the ship El Aquarius to enter the port of Valencia after Italy and Malta closed their port facilities.
Situation in detail
On board the ship - belonging to the NGO Sos Méditerranée and Doctors Without Borders - there are 629 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, in a vulnerable situation who left from Libya.
In detail, they are found 123 minorunaccompanied s, eleven children and seven pregnant women and several people who left Libya for Europe.
According to the Spanish government spokesperson, Isabel Celaá, the Aquarius and the two Italian navy ships are expected to arrive in Valencia on Sunday morning (17.6.2017).
And because?
The decision to close Italian ports to NGO ships is unprecedented. The crew members are mostly Syrian immigrants who They escape from a war which began in 2011 by Economic interests which are disputed over this country by Western allies against Iran and Russia.
Fuente: ABC
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