High tension between Rome and Paris about migrants. After the opening of the reception announced a few days ago, the French government has decided that the Ocean Viking, the ship of the NGO Sos Méditerranée with 231 migrants on board, will land in Toulon. After the boat remained at sea for 19 days, off the coast of Sicily, yesterday three people were evacuated for the first time by the French government to the hospital in Bastia for health reasons, including a patient who "does not react to the treatment provided on board since October 27", explains Sophie Beau, director of the NGO. But from Paris fingers are directly pointed at Italy, defined by the Transalpine Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin as the "big loser", placing itself "outside of European solidarity and its own commitments", warning that "there will be extremely strong consequences on bilateral and European relations" and announcing that France will suspend the reception expected for the summer of 3,500 refugees currently in Italy, planned in the name of European solidarity. The French minister also invited "all other partners of the European relocation mechanism for migrants, in particular Germany", to do the same and to suspend "the planned reception of refugees currently in Italy". (Photo Max Cavallari)
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