Ocean Viking: France could welcome the migrant boat

L’Ocean Viking and its 234 survivors on board are heading for France on Wednesday 9 November. For 19 days and the first rescues, he has been denied access to a port in Malta and then in Italy 43 times. The boat is today the subject of a showdown between the latter and France. Tuesday 8 November, Giorgia Melonihead of the Italian government, thanks France for hosting the trawler in a press release.

Giorgia’s coup de force Meloni angers the French executive. “The current attitude of the Italian government, and in particular the declarations and the refusal to let this boat dock contrary to all the European rules which have been accepted by all the countries of the union, is unacceptable.”, declares Olivier Véran, spokesperson for the government at the microphone of FranceInfo Wednesday. For the time being, no French port has announced that it will welcome the boat. But the mayor of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhone)Benedict Payanvolunteered.