FILE PHOTO: Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese looks on at the cabinet swearing-in ceremony at the Quirinale Presidential Palace in Rome, Italy September 5, 2019. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government was in no way to blame for allowing a Tunisian migrant accused of killing three people in a church in neighbouring France to enter Europe, the interior minister said on Friday.
The suspect in Thursday's attack in Nice, Brahim Aouissaoui, reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sept. 20 aboard a small boat. He was subsequently moved to the mainland on Oct. 8, and, as with almost all new arrivals, was let free.
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