All migrants on board a rescue ship turned back by Italy have disembarked in France, authorities said Saturday, as the vessel left to undergo maintenance at another port.
The Ocean Viking, operated by a French NGO, will in a few weeks' time leave the other port in France to return to save more migrants in the Mediterranean.
France allowed the boat to dock at the southern port of Toulon on Friday after Rome denied it access. Of the passengers, 189 people -- including 23 women and 13 minors -- are now living in a holiday camp turned shelter on the Giens Peninsula some 20 kilometres from the military port of Toulon. Another 44 unaccompanied minors -- most"young teenagers" -- have been handed over to French social services and are not staying at the Giens shelter, local official Evence Richard said.Germany is to receive 80 migrants, while Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal and Romania are also to take in a share.
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