Berlin has been financing charities who rescue migrants in the Med and drop them off on Italian shores, says 'astonished' PM Georgia Meloni in furious letter to Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Daily MailItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said she was 'astonished' to learn of a German government initiative to finance migrant rescue charity groups operating in the Mediterranean in a letter to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said she was 'astonished' to learn of a German government initiative to finance migrant rescue charity groups operating in the Mediterranean in a letter to Chancellor Olaf Scholz Meloni's letter to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is dated Sept. 23 and was made public on Monday after Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, a senior figure in Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, also took aim at Germany for supporting the charities in an interview on Sunday The right-wing Meloni is pursuing a hard line against illegal immigration but Italy has seen a surge in migrant arrivals this year with some 133,000 coming ashore so far against around 69,800 in the same period in 2022. Pictured: A Italian Coast Guard boat carry migrants near the port of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, September 18 'I have learned with astonishment that your administration - without coordinating with the Italian government - has allegedly decided to support with substantial funds non-governmental organisations engaged in the reception of irregular migrants on Italian territory and in rescues in the Mediterranean Sea,' Meloni wrote. Italian firefighters and Red Cross personnel gather at the scene where bodies of migrants washed ashore following a shipwreck, at a beach near Cutro, Crotone province, southern Italy, 26 February 2023 A view of part of the wreckage of a capsized boat that was washed ashore at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Monday, February 27, 2023 It has also sought to boost repatriation of arrivals ineligible for asylum, including by building new detention centres and extending the time migrants can be held there.
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