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FFrance announced Friday that she and other EU countries would accept more than 60 migrants stranded on a German rescue boat off Malta, which refused to let them land unless other countries do not help it.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on Twitter that he had spoken to his Maltese counterpart about 64 migrants, including 12 women and a baby, collected on April 3 off the Libyan coast.
"I confirmed that France, like Germany and several other European partners, would show solidarity and would welcome refugees aboard Alan Kurdi, allowing them to disembark in Valletta ", wrote Castaner.
The rescue vessel, operated by the German charity Sea-Eye, is the latest to have been abandoned off European shores, where governments are increasingly trying to push migrants back to Africa.
Sea-Eye first attempted to land on the Italian island of Lampedusa, but Italy's far-right minister, Matteo Salvini – who refused several rescue vessels l? last year – rejected the migrants, saying that Berlin should take them in their place.
He finally agreed to let two miners and their mothers land, but they refused to do so without the fathers of the children, who were not allowed to leave the ship. The ship then went to Malta.
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