«Piantedosi supported 100% by the government, the team is compact»- Corriere.it

The Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi «it is 100% supported» by the government, «the team is compact. They are only journalistic controversies ». He said it the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Matthew Salvini , interviewed on Rtl 102.5 , regarding the request for resignation from the oppositions of the Minister of the Interior. Salvini’s intervention is heavy the day after Mattarella’s appeal for concrete interventions and on the day in which the Minister of the Interior will report to Parliament on the tragedy of migrants in Cutro in Calabria and precisely when the role of Piantedosi himself with respect to the issue of migrants risks being questioned by Prime Minister Meloni herself.

Salvini also replied to the request for resignation advanced against him in the hours following the tragedy. «Either it’s ignorance or it’s bad faith, I’m used to attacking Salvini, bringing up la Coast Guard which is a body of excellence of the state seems to me really low politics. The Coast Guard was notified when the tragedy occurred», commented the leader of the League according to which «the Coast Guard has 10,200 women and men ready to risk to save lives. The tragedy that has occurred» a Cutro, «whose sole culprits are smugglers and traffickers, has not been recognized as a relief intervention by the international authorities. The Coast Guard was sadly alerted after the tragedy occurred. Bringing up a state body of excellence seems low politics to me ».

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you create security: «According to data from the UN and the Institutes that refer to the European Commission, in the last 10 years, the year in which there were fewer deaths in the Mediterranean it was by chance 2019, year in which I was Minister of the Interior and in which the safety decrees were in force, because it is obvious that the fewer people you send away by smugglers and traffickers, the fewer people risk». A position also confirmed by another Northern League exponent, the group leader in the Senate Massimiliano Romeo, who commented returning to Piantedosi’s words. «At that moment, emotion can make you say a concept perhaps not using the right words. So then they lend themselves to being misinterpreted. But Piantedosi’s message was that: fewer departures, fewer deaths. The concept was right, it is clear that maybe said in that way there they lend themselves to exploitation as unfortunately then happened ».