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Accusing Rome of being “incapable” of managing “migratory pressure”, Thursday, May 4, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, aroused the indignation of the Italian executive. The transalpine Ministry of Foreign Affairs has canceled the visit he had planned to make in Paris.
The migration crisis is once again at the heart of the tensions between Paris and Rome. In question, the words of Gérald Darmanin, who decided to directly attack the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. “Italy is unable […] to manage this migratory pressure. That means that Madame Meloni is like Madame Le Pen, that is to say that she gets elected on the basis of: ‘You’re going to see what you’re going to see’, and then what we see, c is that it does not stop and that it amplifies“, declared the Minister of the Interior on RMC, Thursday, May 4.
The Quai d’Orsay fails to calm things down
Barely a few hours later, the Italian Foreign Minister retaliated by deciding to cancel his visit to Paris, scheduled for the same evening. The Quai d’Orsay tried to calm things down, citing a “mutual respect” between the two countries – in vain. France and Italy had already torn apart last November over the reception of the Ocean Viking, an SOS Méditerranée boat.
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