Migration: Italy wants to put police in Tunisia

Italy is tomake a formal request to Tunisia to deploy Italian police in the North African state to block a wave of immigration following recent unrest, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said today. "I will ask Tunisia's foreign minister for...

Italy is tomake a formal request to Tunisia to deploy Italian police in the North African state to block a wave of immigration following recent unrest, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said today.

"I will ask Tunisia's foreign minister for authorisation for our forces to intevene in Tunisia to block the flux. The Tunisian system is collapsing," Maroni, a member of the anti-immigration Northern League party, said on television.

Nearly 1,000 Tunisian migrants arrive in Italy overnight: coast guard.

Several more thousands arrived over the past few days, mostly on the island of Lamedusa, forcing the Italian authorities to declare a humanitarian emegrency.

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