Naples mayor offers to welcome in stranded NGO migrant boat

FILE PHOTO: A ferry boat sails in the port of Naples, Italy July 25, 2018. Picture taken July 25, 2018. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - Naples is ready to defy Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and let in a charity-run ship carrying 32 migrants that is blocked in the stormy Mediterranean, the city mayor said on Thursday.

His offer adds to a growing challenge from opposition politicians to Salvini's far-right League, which has vowed to bar migrants and make life difficult for those already here.