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Europe’s Far-Right Exploits COVID-19 for Anti-Refugee Propaganda

Police check at the Port of Piraeus, Greece. Photo: Aggelos Barai

Just a few days earlier, on February 28, Matteo Salvini, Italy's former interior minister and leader of the country's most popular party, the right-wing League, openly accused African migrants of bringing the virus to Italy.

Crisis in the Mediterranean: A Ship with Rescued Migrants has no Place to Dock

(CNN)A ship carrying more than 600 rescued migrants, including 123 unaccompanied minors and seven pregnant women, remained stranded in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday after Italy's new populist government refused permission for it to dock the day before in a move described by rescuers as unprecedented.