Landings of migrants, Italy accuses Wagner. From the insults brigade to Crosetto-Corriere.it

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, historic Jesuit magazine, which presents Father Antonio Spadaro’s book on ten years of the Holy Father’s foreign policy. And obviously, when Giorgia Meloni intervenes, who has the Vatican secretary of state, Pietro Parolin next to her, the most current part concerns Africa, the many trips that Bergoglio has made, but also the attention that this government is dedicating to the southern shore of the Mediterranean since he took office.

The Prime Minister makes a reflection which seeks to detach itself from the controversies of these days, which leverages that development cooperation which has never been truly effective, both on the part of Italy and on the part of the European Union: Many Africans have told me that they do not want to escape their lands and I think that, on this, more can be done: this is the most humane approach one can have, the most merciful approach.

In the book Francis’ Atlas the word mercy it recurs several times, as a distinctive trait of Vatican foreign policy. And the concept which is philosophical, and which is difficult to combine with our daily political plan, Meloni remarks, cannot in any case exempt us from making an effort of reflection: We cannot allow – continues the head of government – that those who come to us often find themselves not to have the life that was promised to them or to work as manpower for organized crime or prostitution, with voodoo rites performed on the heads of their children, until tens of thousands of euros are repaid with prostitution.

Meloni has an interview before and after his speech private with Parolin, and in the first place of migrants who are discussed, of flows, humanitarian corridors and obviously also of the tragedy of Cutro. And on these points the premier also returns in public: I have been and we have been accused of gruesome things but my conscience is clear. The more people leave, the more people put themselves in the hands of cynical traffickers, the greater the risk that something will go wrong. One cannot put one’s head in the sand, let the mafia and traffickers decide who should enter our country, let Wagner’s mercenaries and fundamentalists continue to gain a foothold in Africa, says Meloni (who indicates in the Holy See the most suitable for peace negotiations for Ukraine).

And that of the Wagner militia, which fights in the Ukraine on behalf of the Kremlin, a role that in one day returns three times on the lips of as many government officials. The ministers of defense and foreign affairs, Guido Crosetto and Antonio Tajani, also talk about the militia, which also has a strong presence in Libya and various African states. Crosetto’s is a real alarm: It seems to me that by now we can say that the exponential increase in the migratory phenomenon is also, to a considerable extent, part of a clear strategy of hybrid warfare that the Wagner division and its mercenaries are implementing, using its relevant weight in some African countries. The head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, responded from the front by str … to the Italian minister and stating that his militia does not deal with these things. Even Angelo Bonelli, of the Verdi, enters into verbal collisions with Crosetto, who should be ashamed to make these insinuations. New measures on repatriation and mutual recognition among the 27 states of each country’s decisions on this issue could arrive today in Brussels.