The ship of the Spanish NGO ProActiva Open Arms has been seized by the prosecutor of Catania, since yesterday docked in the port of Pozzallo (Ragusa), in which the landing of 218 migrants took place. It is the first port in Italy at the center of the investigation for the refusal of the ship to deliver migrants to the Libyan patrol boats intervened at the rescue site or in Malta. The detention was carried out on investigations by the Ragusa mobile team and by the Rome Central Operations Service (SCO). Source agi
Italy’s League has overtaken the Five Star Movement in voter support and become the country’s leading party in opinion polls for the first time, according to a poll by SWG to be be aired on television channel LA7. Source Bloomberg
Italy on Saturday demanded that the Netherlands recall two Dutch-flagged migrant rescue ships after one of the non-government organisations that operate them called the interior minister a fascist. Source: Times of Malta
Turkish military forces have entered the outskirts of the northern Syrian town of Manbij as part of a deal agreed with the United States, Turkish media reported on June 18, citing local sources. Source: Hürriyet Daily News
