The health conditions of the migrants on board the Nave Diciotti aroused the concern of the captain who requested the intervention of the health workers. In the late morning on the patrol boat Diciotti the inspectors of the Ministry of Health, Usmaf and regional doctors got on for a medical check-up. After having received the approval of Minister Giulia Grillo, the health workers ordered the disembarkation of 16 migrants (11 women and 5 men) because of their precarious health conditions (in these cases the Viminale route is not needed). The ship also brought sleeping mats, material forialready intimate and essential offered by the Italian Red Cross. While to try to unblock the situation, the NGOs Alterego-Fabbrica dei Nazioni, K-Alma and the LetCIEntrare movement have decided to lodge an urgent appeal to the TAR of Catania, which they deem "illegitimate" their detention and "violated all relevant regulations" .

On the Diciotti, where in recent days had also been reported several cases of scabies, there are overall 124 people between Eritreans, migrants from the Comoro Islands, Bengalis, Syrians, an Egyptian and a Somali.

The 16 landed migrants will be taken to the Garibaldi hospital in Catania. The women, 11 eritree, will be transferred in pink code to the gynecology department. According to what we learn the other five migrants, males, would be affected by three tuberculosis and two from pneumonia.

Matteo Salvini, in the meantime, confirms the tranquility and stresses that he is at work, "with good prospects", for "a positive solution" to the case (he could authorize the procedures for recognizing migrants on board the ship). "Every complaint is for me a medal of valor," he said, referring to the preliminary investigations of the Prosecutor of Agrigento. A hundred would be the complaints presented by ordinary citizens.

In Rome, the Prosecutor of Agrigento Luigi Patronaggio heard some officials of the Ministry of the Interior at the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office as part of the investigation into the Coast Guard ship stopped in the port of Catania.

In a tweet, the former premier and senator Pd Matteo Renzi writes: "There are 150 Eritreans and 43 Italians taken hostage by the post-Facebook of some minister. But human rights are worth more than 'I like' on social media. We are Italy, not a rogue state: we remain human and #Fateliscendere ". The Democratic Party calls on Prime Minister Conte to report immediately to Parliament.