Piantedosi, whips moot seizing NGO migrant ships

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 15 - Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and government whips on Tuesday mooted seizing NGO migrant ships which Italy says are operating illegally in the Mediterranean, amid Rome's ban on them entering Italian waters.
    Piantesodi and the whips from Brothers of Italy (FdI), the League, Forza Italia (FI) and Noi Moderati (NM) discussed applying an administrative sanction that would enable NGO run ships such as those which have recently pushed against the Italian policy to be seized.
    Applying an administrative sanction the to NGOs, which would also allow the confiscation of ships, is to be preferred to criminal sanctions that in the past do not seem to have produced the desired effects, the whips and minister agreed.
    Tuesday's meeting, explained majority sources, was also useful to "unite" the four parties on the eve of the minister's report to parliament on the migrant issue. (ANSA).