Italy investigates claims of wiretapping linked to migration reporting

Prosecutors in Sicily alleged to have wiretapped conversations involving at least 15 journalists

Italy's justice minister is to send inspectors to Sicily following reports that prosecutors wiretapped hundreds of phone conversations involving at least 15 journalists reporting on migration in the central Mediterranean.

The Italian newspaper Domani revealed on Friday that magistrates in Trapani who were investigating sea rescue NGOs and charities for alleged complicity in people smuggling had wiretapped reporters' phonecalls with rescuers and allegedly exposed the journalists' sources.