Eritrean migrants held for
10 d ays on the coast guard ship Diciotti will be moved from a
Messina hotspot to a Catholic Church centre at Ariccia near
Rome, the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI) said Monday.
"They will be moved as soon as possible, in the coming hours,
to the Arccia centre run by Auxiluim, pending their transfer to
the many diocese who have given their availability: Turin,
Brescia, Bologna, Agrigento, Cassano all'Jonio, Rossano
Calabro, to cite only those I know about," CEI's head of social
communications, Father Ivan Maffeis, told the SIR religious news
agency.
The CEI agreed to take in about 100 of the migrants while
Albania and Ireland took 20 each to end a stand-off after
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini kept them aboard saying they
would not land until the EU agred to take them.
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