Italy has rejected remarks by U.N. Human Rights Chief, Michelle Bachelet, on its treatment of migrants as “inappropriate, unfounded, unjust”.
The foreign ministry, in a long and sharply worded statement on Tuesday, was responding to a speech in which Bachelet criticized Italy for denying entry to NGO rescue ships and announced the dispatching of a U.N. team to investigate a “sharp increase in acts of violence and racism against migrants.”
Agency Report