Italy 'to deploy police to Tunisia'

[Delirium]

The Italian government is to ask for permission to deploy its police in Tunisia, to tackle a sudden wave of immigration, say officials.
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Europe was not doing anything to help stop the flow of migrants, the Italian news agency Ansa reports.
More than 4,000 migrants are reported to have arrived on the island of Lampedusa in the past few days.
Italy has declared a humanitarian emergency and called for EU assistance.
Mr Maroni, who is a member of the anti-immigration Northern League party, said the Tunisian system was "collapsing".
"I will ask the Tunisian foreign ministry for permission for our authorities to intervene to stop the flow in Tunisia," Ansa quoted him as saying.


full (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12443740)

[Mather]

The Tunisian government has rejected and condemned Italy's police offer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12445008

This is good news as Italian police are notoriously brutal, violent, racist and corrupt, by European standards.

[Red Commissar]

Ben Ali was supported by European Governments in part that he acted as another wing of their "border patrol" so to speak. The regime made sure as few as possible Tunisians or others left the country through his waters, and he was rewarded by the European governments accordingly.

Thankfully the new Tunisian government wasn't that much of a push over. But Italy may find another way to "sweeten the deal" so to speak.