Latest News: Barcelona calls Spain to let the boats off the boat

MADRID – The latest migrations in Europe (all times The Mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, asks the Spanish Prime Minister to grant the city rights Docking to help a Spanish aid boat that rescued 60 migrants in the Mediterranean near Libya.

The Open Arms boat, led by the Spanish aid group Proactiva Open Arms, has was the cause of a political dispute Saturday between Italy and Malta, both of which refused to take over the migrants from the boat badistance. "Barcelona" do not want to be complicit with politics of death of Matteo Salvini ", referring to the Italian Minister of the Interior.

Salvini, leader of an anti-migrant party in the Italian coalition government, promised to have nothing left rescue of humanitarian groups will land in Italy

The Spanish city of Valencia has received 630 migrants on board another rescue boat earlier this month

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. 63 people are trying to reach the southern coast of the Mediterranean while the authorities are looking for another missing boat.

Saturday's rescues occur as the route from the western Mediterranean to Europe – by sea and by land – has exceeded Africa this year in Italy as part of Rome's tightening policy on Migration

The rescue service indicates that 58 migrants were found in the Strait of Gibraltar, traveling in three boats that left North Africa.

More people were rescued further east in the Mediterranean Sea, near the province of Murcia. A lifeboat and a helicopter were looking for another boat in the area

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A Spanish rescue boat ripped off 60 migrants from a canoe tire patched up in the Mediterranean near Libya, igniting another political line between Italy and Malta on which should let the aid boat dock.

The ship Open Arms, led by the Spanish aid group Proactiva Open Arms, said it had rescued the migrants on Saturday. A nine-year-old boy and three teenagers – after spotting a rubber boat with tape floating in the sea. All the migrants appeared in good health.

The Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, quickly declared that the lifeboat "could forget to arrive in an Italian port" and claimed that the boat had to go to Malta, the port the most close. But Malta rebuffed quickly, his interior minister claiming that the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, south of Sicily, was closer to the boat

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. migrants arriving in Europe are strongly down this year from 2017, the subject of migration has deepened the political divisions in the European Union.

The Open Arms is the third rescue ship operated by humanitarian groups in the central Mediterranean to get into the sights of the repression of the Italian Interior Minister Matteo, Salvini, over the past three weeks

Salvini has sworn that more rescue boats from humanitarian groups will dock in Italy. But cracks began to appear between the two parties in Italy 's new populist coalition government over Salvini' s harsh approach.

Roberto Fico, Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament and an important figure in the 5-Star Movement, the ruling coalition's main partner. told reporters after inspecting a migrant reception center in a Sicilian port city that "I would not close ports."

Fico told reporters that Libya now "is not a place with security." , who said to have "dramatic stories that touch the heart."

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While European politicians bickered, these migrants rescued on Saturday by the Open Arms aid ship were jubilant, jumping, chanting

Eyes a nine-year-old boy shone when the Open Arms crew termed him "captain" after being allowed to sit in the captain's seat on the bridge for a few minutes. Krisley Dokouada from the Central African Republic was rescued with her parents.

Six Libyans and nationals of Mali, Eritrea, Egypt, Bangladesh, South Sudan and Guinea rescued Saturday

lawmakers aboard a companion ship, l & # 39; Astral. Legislators and an AP reporter then boarded the Open Arms to meet with migrants and rescuers.

A Spanish legislator, Javi Lopez, said the Spanish authorities were studying the possibility of welcoming migrants. providing the safe port.

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D Emilio reported from Rome. Stephen Calleja in Malta and Aritz Parra in Madrid contributed.