Receiving migrants is road to hell, says Czech PM

Receiving migrants is road to hell, says Czech PM

Babis said that accepting some of the rescued passengers would be "the road to hell" and would only motivate smugglers to try to transport even more people through this dangerous route across the Mediterranean.

"Our country will not receive any migrants," the Czech prime minister said. He added that ships that transport migrants should be denied access.

"We need to help migrants in their countries, outside the European Union," Babis said.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass wrote in a Twitter message that the inability of the world to agree on taking in Jews fleeing from Nazi persecution in 1938 resulted an agreement on refugees after the Second World War, which still binds countries.