ROME, July 14, 2018 (MENA) - Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has said that a boat carrying 450 migrants, now in Maltese-competence waters, can't come to his country as he wrestled with another migrant case that pitted him against President Sergio Mattarella and caused a government split. "A boat with 450 CLANDESTINES aboard has since this morning been in waters under the competence of Malta, which has said it will intervene. A few hours later, however, no one has moved and the boat has started heading for Italy again," Salvini was quoted by ANSA news agency as saying. "Let Malta, the migrant smugglers and the do-gooders of all of Italy and all the world know that this boat CANNOT and MUST NOT arrive in an Italian port. "We've already done our bit, understood?" The Italian foreign ministry sent a note to the Maltese embassy in Rome saying that Rome asked Valletta to meet its responsibilities with the maximum urgency.
