Italy orders seizure of migrant rescue ship over 'HIV-contaminated' clothes
 

Prosecutors allege garments on Aquarius should have been labelled as ‘toxic waste’

Italian authorities have ordered the seizure of the migrant rescue ship Aquarius after claiming that discarded clothes worn by the migrants on their voyage from Libya to Italy could have been contaminated by HIV, meningitis and tuberculosis.

Prosecutors from Catania, eastern Sicily, alleged that the waste was illegally labelled by the ship’s crew as “special waste” rather than “toxic waste”.

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