The French authorities has slammed Italy's refusal to just accept a rescue ship carrying greater than 200 migrants -- calling it a "nasty gesture".
The Ocean Viking was lastly docked in France final week -- the place the migrants had been allowed to disembark within the southern metropolis of Toulon to be processed.
"It is a unhealthy gesture", however "the necessary factor is to proceed cooperation and never go away it at that”, President Emmanuel Macron's entourage stated.
“The folks disembarked in Toulon will probably be deducted from the quantity we're taking on this 12 months as a part of our solidarity with Italy".
Of the 234 folks rescued by the vessel within the Mediterranean, greater than half had been refused entry into France.
"Of the 234 folks - on the time of writing all of the procedures haven't been accomplished - 44 have been recognised as minors, 60 can apply for asylum, together with Syrians, Sudanese and Eritreans, 44 have had their functions rejected right this moment", stated Gerald Darmanin, France's Minister of the Inside.
After Rome's refusal to just accept the Ocean Viking, France has known as for "European initiatives" to "higher management [its] exterior borders".
Italy's Inside Minister just lately defended the road taken by the brand new right-wing authorities, and urged Europe to get a stronger grip on the migration "phenomenon".
EU inside ministers will meet in Brussels subsequent week to debate migration coverage in mild of the present disaster.
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