Calabrian tragedy – the sinking of a fishing boat with two hundred immigrants days ago – immigration issue at the forefront of the public agenda Italy. A few days later, intelligence reports released by the press came to light, warning of thousands of migrants preparing to sail from Libya to the shores of the transalpine country. And in the final hours came the official accusation: Italy is behind the increasing descents in the country The hand of the Russian mercenary company Wagner.
Restructuring is irritating. Especially since it was made by two important ministers of the Giorgia Meloni Government. These are Defense Minister Guido Crosetto and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. “The exponential increase in immigration that began on the African coast is also, in large measure, a Open hybrid warfare strategy implemented by WagnerUsing the relevant weight in African countries,” said Crosetto.
“HE global conflict The minister, who “started the Ukrainian conflict,” continues, uses “uncontrolled immigration” to “hit the most affected countries, especially Italy.” “Many immigrants come from areas controlled by the Wagner Group. “I don’t want to think of it as an attempt to push immigrants towards Italy,” Tajani said during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The accusation came just as the possibility of a deployment was leaked to the Italian Parliament. maritime surveillance and identification operation boats in the Mediterranean. And almost at the same time, the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, posted a message in Telegram, in which he sharply responded to the words of Minister Crosetto.
“The defense minister should look less in other directions and be more concerned with problems that he could not possibly solve,” Prigozhin said. “We are not aware of what is happening in the migration crisis. we don’t deal with itReputable data analysts stressed that some figures from Italian intelligence would not be accurate.
“Services fired an alert: 685,000 migrants ready to leave Libya. But this is a mistake. The International Organization for Migration estimates the number of migrants (found in Libya) (that’s not those about to leave), said Matteo Villa, head of the data lab at the Institute for Policy Studies. International (Ispi) “Last year, (intelligence services) estimated about 400,000 landings. I estimated 110,000. And there were 105,000 people,” Villa added.
All this after the Meloni government has repeatedly clashed with its European partners in recent months over immigration policies and the growing challenges posed to nonprofit rescue operations at sea. The argument is that Italy cannot undertake any more landings, at a time when the number of arrivals is increasing again, according to the country’s Ministry of Interior. Specifically, so far this year, the country claims to have registered a total of 20,017 migrants disembarked in Italy, more than triple the same period in 2022 (6,152) and 2021 (6,041).