Migrants, Casarini: “The Draghi government? Much worse than the worst Salvini”

“To assess the nature of a government it is only right to stay with the facts. This government, as regards policies on migration and the right of asylum, is doing much worse than the worst Salvini.” This is the indictment of Luca Casarini, head of mission of Mediterranea Saving Humans, who bluntly rejects the actions of the Draghi executive. “There is no invasion as the right is saying in these hours – says Adnkronos -, but a conscious choice by this government to focus on push-backs, rather than on safety at sea, on safe channels for refugees and on organize a human, rational and effective reception “. Casarini remembers what happened in the central Mediterranean in the past few hours. “We witnessed a crime against humanity, carried out under the eyes of the Italian and European authorities – accusation -: 120 people, including Syrian children fleeing the horrors of war and Libya, were captured and deported to Libyan detention centers. The pushback, which took place with the complicity of a merchant ship the Vos Triton, whose company is based in Genoa – specifies the head of mission of Mediterranea -, occurred despite the fact that the Italian authorities knew everything for hours before, and this violation of the Hamburg and Geneva Conventions was fulfilled before their eyes. Are Admiral Pettorino, Minister Giovannini and Minister Lamorgese now happy that those children are again locked up in a Libyan concentration camp? Dragons of the work of ‘his’ Libyan coast guard, which costs so much to Italian public finances? “. For Casarini” this government has not changed its approach to migration and human beings’ right to asylum compared to previous governments. Rather. The fact that all civilian rescue ships are blocked continuously and in a pretext manner, that the illegal rejections by the Libyan militias in fact coordinated by Italy, Malta and Frontex continue, that immediate transfers are not organized in Lampedusa, that the shame, however very expensive, of quarantine ships, says a lot about the true nature of the ‘government of the best’. But better than whom? “, He concludes.