Migrants, "an Italian ship brings them back to Libya". Salvini denies: "Badly informed"

This would be the first time it happens. An Italian ship, Asso Ventotto a boat supporting an oil platform, after recovering a cargo of migrants, would have gone to Tripoli to land the survivors in Libyan territory.

in fact, it would be coordinated with the Coast Guard of Tripoli who is competent in these waters for the management of SAR Search and Rescue Operations

"We have learned that one of the rafts reported today by the Italian Coast Guard with 108 people aboard in the Mediterranean, he was rescued by the ship Asso Ventotto, flying the Italian flag, which is heading towards Tripoli We do not know yet if this is done on the instructions of the Italian Coast Guard, but if it would be a very serious precedent, a real mbad rejection which Italy and the ship's captain will answer in court, "said Fratoianni icola of Liberia and Equuali from the edge of the Open Arms. "International law – he adds – provides that people rescued at sea must be taken to a safe place, and the Libyans, despite the mystification of reality by the Italian government, can not be considered".

The case is added to those of the Lifeline, the Italian Your Thalbada and the Italian Nave Diciotti on which the Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini has embarked on a veritable tussle with European governments so that Italy does not become the refugee camp of Europe.

The case of Asso Ventotto which has no official confirmation for the moment, would be an important precedent. And it would be a challenge for the European Union who said a few days ago that Brussels does not recognize Libya as a safe haven and reiterated that European ships would never have returned to Tripoli rescued migrants at sea. Yesterday again Roberto Fico, President of the House, repeated this concept: "Migrants can not be brought back there." Apparently, he was wrong

" The Italian Coast Guard did not coordinate and participated in any of these operations, falsely declared by a foreign NGO and an ill-informed leftist ". This is the clarification (post scriptum) of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini at the post in which he writes that "the Libyan Coast Guard has rescued and brought back 611 immigrants in the last hours". While the UNHCR said it "gathers all the necessary information on the case of the Italian tug #AssoVentotto that would have brought to Libya 108 people rescued in the Mediterranean".