(AFP) Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday called for all Tunisians who are in his country illegally to be repatriated and for illicit migration to be “blocked,” during a visit to Tunis.
The hardline Italian minister spoke following a meeting with Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi, and several days after Italy’s government adopted a series of measures promising to limit clandestine immigration.
“The priority was to block the hundreds of thousands of uncontrolled arrivals that we have received these last years,” Salvini said during a joint press conference with his Tunisian counterpart Hichem Fourati.
“We are working with the Tunisian authorities to … escort to Tunisia those who come from Tunisia,” the Italian minister said.
