50 migrants allowed in by Italy have disappeared.

More than 50 of the 144 migrants after being stranded for days on a coastguard vessel have disappeared without trace from reception centres, the country’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday. The migrants were picked up by the Diciotti coastguard ship on the night of August 15 and were left stranded at sea for 10 days as Salvini refused to allow the vessel to dock in an Italian port. These migrants "were so in need of protection, a roof and a blanket that they decided to leave and disappear," Salvini said on Facebook. Salvini, head of the far-right League party, finally relented after Ireland, Albania and the Italian Catholic church agreed to lake most of them in. Reacting to the disappearance of 50 of those taken in, Giorgia Meloni — leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party — asked on Twitter who would be responsible if one of them committed a crime in Italy, calling for an end to “uncontrolled immigration” Most of those aboard the Diciotti were Eritreans, along with a small number of Somalians, Syrians, Sudanese and Comorans. Since the start of the year, 3,000 migrants from the former Italian colony of Eritrea have arrived in Italy but less than a thousand have applied for asylum, according to interior ministry figures. Many Eritreans prefer to continue by land to Germany, Sweden or Britain, despite the heavy controls encountered at the French, Swiss and Austrian borders as well as the EU’s Dublin regulation under which a migrant can only make an asylum claim in the first European country.