Following the murder of a Nigerian street vendor in the central Italian town of Civitanova Marche, hundreds of people took to the streets demanding justice last Saturday.

Missions by French and German officials to Italian centers, as well as further German checks have been announced in the coming days in the "first concrete step" towards a European migrant relocation system, the Italian interior mini1

Pantelleria's deputy mayor says the Sicilian island doesn't have a "structured center like Lampedusa" to host migrants. "The numbers are certainly different, but the emergency is the same."

The civil rescue ship Sea-Eye 4, carrying 87 migrants, was refused permission to enter a port in Malta at the weekend and has continued on to southern Italy in the hope of being able to dock there.