Frontex did not warn us – Corriere.it

Good afternoon, your dumb premier here to answer your questions. Before replying to the mayor of Crotone, before raising your voice slightly and letting off steam, since I’ve read many surreal reconstructions on the tragedy of the shipwreck, Giorgia Meloni presents herself before reporters, ironically replying to the misunderstandings of the last few days, to criticisms received for not having had time to meet the media during the mission that saw her first in India and then in the Emirates.

Now that the journey is over, on the seafront terrace of one of the most luxurious hotels in the world, it not only takes stock of the international relations that have punctuated the visits to New Delhi and Abu Dhabi, but above all it responds to the e criticisms that from Italy continue to arrive on role of government in the face of the tragedy of shipwreck of migrants in Calabria. an articulate, heated reply, delivered without apparent hesitation.

First point: I’ve heard everything, Meloni escapes, Meloni doesn’t work, Meloni disappears, Meloni is not interested. I read surreal reconstructions: the government gone immediatelythe same day of this tragedy, I am the government, Minister Piantedosi went, we were present right away, after which the President of the Republic also went, who represents all the institutions, unless someone believes he is in competition compared to the government.

Second point, Meloni rejects any criticism of the role he played after the tragedy. The mayor of Crotone wrote her a letter, asked her to go and see with your own eyes, as a mother, if not as Prime Minister, to share the pain of other mothers. She announces that she is thinking of keeping the next council of ministers in Cutro: Institutions have been present to express their condolences, after which the next step give answers, continue to work. I intervened, I answered the interviews, I wrote to the European Commission: it seems to me that one can only say no I have done my bestI would like to try to look at what can be done to prevent it from happening again.

Third point, the one that burns them most, the not so veiled criticism of a sort of deliberate omission, in the failure to help the shipwrecked: But really, in conscience, there is someone who believes that the government deliberately killed 60 people? I ask you, looking into your eyes, but does anyone really think that if 60 people could have been saved, including a three-year-old boy, we wouldn’t have done it? Please, let’s be a little serious.

Then the reconstruction according to the data available to the government. Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano has already made some statements. The situation is simple, in its drama: we have not received any emergency indications from Frontex. Furthermore, the route is not covered by the NGOs and therefore government policies have nothing to do with it. We work to stop the illegal flows, but we continued to save all the people. This is the story. If anyone knows something different, let him know. You can’t go overboard like this to hit what you consider your opponent.

Meloni says heartbroken from the news of the discovery of another dead childa figure that makes her say that the government will fight even more determinedly to stop the human traffickinga shameful and cynical trade that puts people’s lives at risk and I don’t think a day has gone by without me dealing with this matter.

In short, a broad spectrum defense, a claim and an analysis that does not change compared to the policy that the government has chosen: We are very used to noticing problems when there is a tragedy and instead there have been those who have been talking about it since at Palazzo Chigi in the general disinterest. I look for solutionsItaly cannot resolve the issue on its own, but illegal departures must be stopped to prevent more people from dying.

The latest reply to the opposition asking for the Piantedosi’s resignation: The oppositions ask for the resignation of a different minister every day, it is no longer news.