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Italy is killing refugees with kindness

The 'mare nostrum' policy has acted as a magnet for boat people; the crisis is only growing

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

The next time you eat a fish from the Mediterranean, just remember that it may well have eaten a corpse. As the Italian author Aldo Busi told the press just the other day: ‘I don’t buy fish from the Mediterranean any more for fear of eating Libyans, Somalis, Syrians and Iraqis.

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