Not right to let Wagner run loose in Africa - Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 13 - It is not right to let Russian mercenary group Wagner run rampant in Africa, driving migrants to try to reach Italy, Premier Giorgia Meloni said Monday.
    "The more people who leave, the more people they put in the hands of cynical traffickers, the more there is a risk that something will go wrong: I don't think this can ever be the right, humane and responsible way to deal with this.
    "Perhaps it would be easier to put our heads in the sand, to let mafiosi decide who should come to us, to let only those who have money to pay those mafiosi come to us, to let Wagner's mercenaries and fundamentalists continue to take hold in Africa," said Meloni at the presentation of a book on Pope Francis. (ANSA).