Migrants, Salvini defends himself: “Those who accuse the Coast Guard are in bad faith. The killers are the traffickers”

The Cutro massacre continues to cause politics to be discussed, with Joseph Conte which invites Giorgia Meloni And Matthew Salvini in Parliament. The Prime Minister “clarifies the various responsibilities of the ministries concerned. It is not enough to write a letter to Brussels to ask for a new joint effort. Meloni has a duty to clarify who and why did not intervene, to all Italians”.

As for the leader of the League, who unlike the minister Matteo Piantedosi he deserted the parliamentary confrontation, he says that “this is a drama and a tragedy with names and surnames: the killers are the traffickers of human beings and the smugglers who host these people by cramming them into boats. They are journeys of death, not of life”. He defends the Coast Guard against the accusations, given that in any case it is not the body’s work that is contested as much as the directives it has received: “The Coast Guard has been cowardly involved in a squalid political battle and whoever accuses it is ignorant or in bad faith. I say thanks to the men of the sea and I appeal to certain politics and certain journalism: limit the controversy. I have broad shoulders, I have received many accusations, I consider them mostly unjust”. For Salvini’s deputy in the ministry, Edward Rixi, “one must always shed light and carry out internal investigations on anything. But no one has said not to rescue people at sea. I have saved people in the mountains, while there are those who speak in the newspapers and who have never in their life gone to save anyone”. Be that as it may, tragedies like the one on the Calabrian coast “have occurred with all governments – reasons the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanché – immigration is not a problem of this government, but a very complex problem, which has lasted for many years”.

The secretary of Più Europa does not agree, Riccardo Magi: “We need to understand how much the political rhetoric, which says that NGOs are aiding and abetting illegal immigration, may have hindered the rescue machine. The government must provide its own reconstruction of the facts”, his words to Tg1 Mattina.