Italy: Salvini threatens to close airports if Germany starts flying migrants back

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini threatened on Sunday to shut the country's airports after media reported that Germany planned to send charter flights of rejected asylum-seekers to Italy. "If someone in Berlin or Brussels thinks of dropping dozens of migrants via non-authorized charter flights in Italy, they should know that there is not and there will be no airport available," Salvini said on Twitter. "We will close the airports like we closed our ports," he added in reference to Italy's decision this summer to ban migrant rescue boats from entering its harbours.

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