“My fear is that we will return to a past that I had hoped for now archived. To a condition of chaos and disorder in the management of the migratory phenomenon”. Roberto Ammatuna, mayor of Pozzallo, who has always been at the forefront of hospitality, does not hide his “great concern” in the face of the first statements of the new vice premier and minister of infrastructure, Matteo Salvini. The leader of the League, who today met the Commander General of the Coast Guard, Admiral Nicola Carlon, has returned to reiterate the ‘iron fist’ against illegal landings. NGOs are once again targeted. “We will return to enforce laws and borders,” he said during the recording of the episode of ‘Porta a porta’ which will air this evening. “This type of statement can only cause a mayor of a frontier city to be very worried – he tells Adnkronos -. As if all these years had passed in vain”. Ammatuna’s fear is that there will be a return to “ships stuck in the harbor for days, with helicopters and ambulances shuttling to evacuate the most urgent medical cases in an emergency”, to “sudden disembarkation orders in a climate of absolute disorder “, to” the alleged international agreements for relocation with migrants blocked for weeks in hotspots and the risk of unrest in the territory. on the contrary, a different approach to a phenomenon that involves Italy and Europe, but which requires an assumption of collective responsibility “. For the mayor of Pozzallo we need “a more human approach. We must always keep in mind that we are dealing with human beings and not numbers of empty statistics”. And Salvini’s first releases? “I hope they are not consequential to the return to past policies that led to the ‘insecurity’ decrees”. Hope comes from the new Minister of the Interior. “I hope that Piantedosi, a competent person of great humanity, of whom I have great esteem, will be able to face the phenomenon in another way with the involvement of the mayors most interested in the management of migratory flows”. The bitterness remains, however, for the risk of a new period of criminalization against NGOs. “That type of wall against wall brings nothing but chaos and disorder. One day history will be able to give a more correct judgment. Attacking those who save lives at sea by putting their own at risk is unthinkable. Instead, it would be necessary to strengthen reception policies and rescue at sea, organize humanitarian corridors for safe and legal access routes “. In ‘his of him’ Pozzallo the landings are daily. “Here we land every day, without the newspapers mentioning it – he concludes -. It is a forgotten phenomenon”. (by Rossana Lo Castro)