(AFP) Italy’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday said he wanted to put a complete stop to migrant arrivals in Italy by boat.
The aim is that “not one more person arrives by boat” on Italian shores, said Salvini during a news conference with Ahmed Maiteeq, vice president of the Libyan UN-backed Government of National Accord.
Salvini said that as “a minister and a father” he did not want any more “women or babies to get into rubber dinghies.”
“The goal is for those who come to Italy to arrive on planes, even first class,” said Salvini, who is the leader of the far-right League party which governs the country as part of a coalition.
