Migrant group request urgent docking in Italy

19/8/2019 1:31

        A humanitarian group has urgently requested permission from Italy to enter Lampedusa's port so that more than 100 migrants still aboard a rescue boat after nearly three weeks can disembark. Italy's anti-migrant interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has so far refused to let the boat dock. The Open Arms group says that the psychological and physical conditions of the 107 migrants are "at risk." The Spanish charity said in a tweet that "if the worst happens, Europe and Salvini will be responsible." Spain has offered a port for the boat to enter, but Open Arms says another six-day journey would be "crazy."