The 5-Star Movement leader and comedian Beppe Grillo looks on as he arrives at the RAI television headquarters in Rome, September 30, 2013. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
ROME (Reuters) - The leader of Italy's 5-Star Movement has criticised party lawmakers for what he says is their lax stance on immigration, an issue that threatens to divide the party that took a quarter of votes in February's deadlocked elections.
The death of hundreds of migrants off Italy's coast last week prompted two 5-Star senators to propose reforming a law - hated by the left - that criminalises irregular immigration.
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