26 Jun, 2018 @ 17:26
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Spain REFUSES ship carrying 230 migrants, says it will not be ‘sea rescue organisation for Europe’

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Pedro Sanchez
Pedro Sanchez

SPAIN has rejected a charity boat ferrying 230 migrants, saying it cannot be the ‘sea rescue organisation for all of Europe’. 

Pedro Sanchez, the new Socialist prime minister, said there must be a ‘common answer’ to the growing crisis and that it must come from ‘various countries’ in the EU.

The ship is now heading to Malta.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said his country would take in some of the migrants.

Although it comes after his deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, tweeted that Italy had stopped an ‘invasion’ after forcing two charity boats to dock elsewhere.

Spain took in 630 migrants from the Gibraltar-registered Aquarius ship earlier this month after Malta and Italy refused.

 

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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