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Interior Minister Matteo Salvini wants to strengthen his security-bis decree against NGOs that save the lives of migrants off Libya REUTERS / Tony Gentile

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini summoned the National Committee for Order and Security Monday night. On the menu: immigration and the measures it plans to take to strengthen its security-bis decree against NGOs that save the lives of migrants off Libya and come into force in an Italian port. As did a few days away, the ship of the German NGO Sea-Watch and the sailboat of the Italian NGO Mediterranea who have accosted, without authorization, Lampedusa to secure the rescued migrants.

With our correspondent in Rome, Anne Le Nir

Another trick for NGOs in the Mediterranean. In agreement with the Ministry of Defense, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini plans the use of Navy ships to block boats with migrants on board before they reach Italian territorial waters.

Salvini is also planning a reinforcement of customs police patrol boats at the entrance to Italian ports, in particular that of Lampedusa . Rome is also planning to use radar and airplanes to locate self-propelled boats when they leave Libya and to warn the Libyan coastguards in time to intervene. For that, Italy would be ready to offer Tripoli ten new stars.

Building a floating wall is impossible, but the concept is there, at the risk of enlarging the Mediterranean cemetery.

Forty-seven migrants including ten women will dock at the port of Pozzallo in Sicily, they were recovered by a patrol officer of the customs police, their arrival is scheduled on the night of Monday to Tuesday.

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