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Friday 24 august 2018
Rights official: Italy is unjustly holding migrants on boat

By FRANCES D'EMILIO fickers. Shortly after the res-
Associated Press cue at sea, 13 people with
ROME (AP) — A delega- health problems, including
tion from Italy's rights office children, were evacuated
on Thursday visited the 150 to a hospital. On Wednes-
migrants who have been day night, 27 unaccompa-
kept onboard a coast nied minors, all teenagers,
guard vessel for days and were allowed to disembark
concluded they were be- in Catania following an ap-
ing held unjustly. peal by a juvenile court
The comments challenge judge.
Italy's anti-migrant interior A psychologist who met
minister, who has declared with the minors said many
that no migrants whom he were males from Eritrea
considers "illegal" will set who had been detained
foot in a Sicilian port. for long periods in Libya.
Daniela de Robert, the "One boy couldn't see well,
rights delegation chief, he constantly was trying to
spoke after a three-hour focus when his eyes were
visit aboard the Italian hit by light," said Nathalie
coast guard vessel Diciotti, Leiba, a psychologist with
which is docked in Cata- Doctors without Borders.
nia on the Mediterranean The boy explained that he
island of Sicily. Migrants wait to disembark from Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti in the port of Catania, Italy, had been kept for a year in
She told Sky TG24 TV that Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. darkness.
the migrants on the boat Associated Press Interior Minister Matteo Sal-
come from countries that vini on Thursday described
could make them eligible we'd find: persons deprived as a rights violation that or deprived of personal lib- those aboard as "illegal
for international protection. of freedom without any would be brought to the erty." immigrants," and said they
She said nearly 90 percent measure from judicial au- attention of prosecutors in The Diciotti rescued the won't be allowed to step
are from Eritrea, while the thorities," the Italian news Sicily. migrants on Aug. 16 af- foot on Italian soil. Instead,
others are from Syria, Su- agency ANSA quoted her The office's formal title is ter they set sail from Libya he insisted fellow European
dan and Somalia. as saying. "national guarantor of the in an unseaworthy boat Union nations take in some
"We found what we thought She described the situation rights of persons detained launched by human traf- of the asylum-seekers.q

Man kills mother, sister; France sees no apparent terror tie

By JOHN LEICESTER could respond, for exam-
ELAINE GANLEY ple, to orders and instruc-
TRAPPES, France (AP) — A tions from a terrorist orga-
man with severe psychiat- nization, in particular from
ric problems killed his moth- Daesh (Islamic State)."
er and sister and seriously Said Segreg, a long-time
injured another woman in friend of the attacker
a knife attack Thursday in named him as Kamel Salhi,
a town near Paris, officials 36. He said Salhi had no
said. obvious problems, didn't
French police shot and abuse drugs or alcohol and
killed the man soon after- wasn't fervently religious.
ward. A government official con-
The Islamic State group, firmed Salhi's name and
which has a history of op- age, speaking on condition
portunistic claims, swiftly of anonymity because he
claimed responsibility for wasn't authorized to discuss
the attack. such details publicly.
French authorities weren't Salhi was divorced and liv-
currently treating the morn- ing with his mother, said
ing knife attack in Trappes, Adama Traore, another ac-
west of Paris, as a terrorism quaintance in Trappes.
case, Interior Minister Ge- Investigators remained at
rard Collomb said after vis- Police officers stand guard after a knife attack Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 in Trappes, west of Paris. the scene hours after the
iting the scene. He noted Associated Press slayings, taking a bag and
the attacker suffered from satchels from the home.
serious mental health issues office in Versailles, handling vances it won't be clear outside. Still wielding the "It seems, but I can't con-
although he had also been the case, said in a state- "100 percent" whether the knife, he then ignored po- firm 100 percent because
flagged for glorifying terror- ment Thursday evening attack at the family home lice warnings and was shot the investigation is continu-
ism. that motive for the killings was strictly a family drama and killed, the minister said. ing ... that this affair is more
However, officials were not "remains uncertain." or was linked to terrorism. He described the man a family drama than a ter-
ruling out a terrorism link in Interior Ministry spokesman Collomb said the man killed as "unstable, rather than rorist attack," spokesman
the early stage of the inves- Frederic de Lanouvelle said his mother at her home and someone who was en- de Lanouvelle said on the
tigation. The prosecutor's until the investigation ad- stabbed the other women gaged, someone who C-News television station.q