Salvini uploads picture of migrants in 'Maltese waters'
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Italy's right-wing deputy prime minister uploaded a picture of a migrants' boat he claimed was steaming through Maltese waters on Saturday. The picture taken from an aircraft shows around 70 migrants packed into the dinghy, some of whom are seen waving at tSalvini uploads picture of migrants in 'Maltese waters'
Italy's right-wing deputy prime minister uploaded a picture of a migrants' boat he claimed was steaming through Maltese waters on Saturday. The picture taken from an aircraft shows around 70 migrants packed into the dinghy, some of whom are seen waving at the prospective rescuers. «Exclusive images of a dinghy with 70 immigrants in a boat with a powerful engine, in Maltese waters. Will someone do something to intervene or will they send them once again towards Italy?», Matteo Salvini said in a tweet. Even since his election, the leader of Lega Nord kept up the pressure on Malta to take in any migrants that go through the island's search and rescue zone. Just three days ago he lashed out at the Maltese authorities for failing to intervene as a boat with 171 migrants on board sailed through the island's search and rescue area. The migrants remain in limbo off Lampedusa. Read: Salvini says he has nothing against the Maltese people Malta has always maintained that such boats have a «right of passage» unless the migrants are in distress or request help. The row between the two traditional allies illustrates how politically fraught the issue of coping with seaborne migrants... Read more