Matteo Salvini wants warespecially the media Reactivated at any cost with NGOs. This is what came out of the last speech of the far-right leader. League and the new Vice-President of the Italian Government suggested in a tweet: Italy to prevent landing humanitarian aid ships of foreign NGOs immigrants in the Mediterranean.
“Message to traffickers and accomplices: As we said in the election program of the right, Italy won’t tolerate any more money from clandestine immigration and uncontrolled landings“The Minister for Infrastructure, who has authority over the ports, also wrote this Thursday. “Let foreign entities manage (…) go to their country,” he added, adding a Norwegian flag and the other German.
salviniWhile he was the Minister of Interior (2018-2019) he was already a supporter of a tough policy against NGOs, therefore german ship ‘Mankind One’ and norwegian ship ‘Ocean Viking’ by the European NGO Sos Méditerranée. Both at sea and in total, with salvage operations currently underway. 300 survivors on board.
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The new escalation of the conflict, concern of many NGOsdenounced that its operations have faced increasing barriers in recent years, putting immigrants at greater risk. “Until 2018, we have always carried out coordinated rescue operations. Italian Coast GuardEven we made the rescues together“, explained this Thursday to EL PERIÓDICO Claudia Lodesani, responsible for the following. Doctors Unlimited (MSF) for Libya. “This doesn’t happen anymore. We report our operations to them, but the previous system has been dismantled,” he added.
Even so, according to Lodesani, “this message continues to be repeated, this smokescreen, that NGOs are responsible for what’s coming.” “But this year NGOs rescued only 16 percent of migrants arrived (to Italy) by sea. 53% landed in Italy on their own and the rest were rescued by military ships‘, the humanitarian worker confirmed, adding that the new barriers would only put more lives at risk without ‘solving’ the phenomenon. Need to find alternatives Not seeing the situation as an emergency is a regular migration,” he said.
In this climate, last Wednesday, some 40 NGOs They asked the Italian Government not to renew the memorandum given by Rome. Libya – an accused country human rights violation– money and technical support in exchange for stopping departures from its shores. But so far, there has been no sign of that, unless the deal is terminated by Italy a few days ago, it will be automatically ratified.
Source: Informacion
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