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The Vice President of the Government Italian and leader of the League, the far-right Matteo Salviniannounced today a “strong hand” against the NGOs that rescue people in the Mediterraneanto which “fines” will be imposed, in addition to “seizures” of their humanitarian ships and “more controls”.
“Hardening in sight: fines, seizures and more controls”, Salvini writes on his social networks, before adding that “The Government is prepared to (have) a strong hand with the landings” and conclude with the slogan: “Whoever is wrong pays for it. That’s OK”.
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The new Executive that presides over the ultra-right Giorgia Meloni has launched a battle to hinder the work of the associations that save immigrants in the Mediterranean, which it accuses of promoting the flow from Africa, which has opened a confrontation between France and Italy over the ships of the NGO.
Salvini, who is also Minister of Infrastructure, with port powers, has ordered, by decree, that only people who, after medical inspection on board, were considered vulnerable, should disembark from humanitarian ships. The rest must stay inside and then be returned to international waters.
Tomorrow, at the Foreign Council of the EUitaly goes “to raise the issue of immigration with great serenity and determination, because the problem has been going on for years and it is absolutely necessary to solve it”previously assured the Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, who has demanded that the European Commission “a code of conduct for NGOs”.
Tajani, who did not rule out that Meloni and the French president Emmanuel Macroncan meet next week in the framework of the G20 meeting in Bali, denied that Italy has been left alone in Europe, after Paris announced reprisals against Rome both bilaterally and within the EU.
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”Germany and Luxembourg will respect the pacts, just like us. And Greece, Malta and Cyprus are also in solidarity, since they have signed a joint declaration of the Interior Ministers with Italy because they have the same problem.”said, although shortly after the German ambassador in Italy, Victor Eblingsaid that NGOs “they save lives” and they deserve “gratitude and support”.
For its part, France once again warned Italy: “There will be consequences if Italy persists in this attitude”said his foreign minister, Catherine Colonna, who regretted “stubborn rejection and inhumanityfrom Rome.
Source: EFE
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