The decrees that block the landing of migrants are illegitimate – Corriere.it

It is a political storm over the government due to the migrant situation in Sicily. In Catania, 145 people have disembarked in port from Humanity 1 but 35 are still on board. The NGO Sos Humanity denounces that the people on board “are depressed and one person has felt ill. Illegal if they don’t all get off ». Meanwhile, another ship, the Geo Barents, with 572 people on board, was asked to always arrive in Catania to assess cases of vulnerability. The line of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi is clear: “Only those who qualify can disembark”. The secretary of the Democratic Party is attacking the government Enrico Letta via Twitter: «The“ residual load ”and the“ selective landing ”. Unacceptable language for even more unacceptable choices in Catania, contrary to the principles of humanity and international rules ».

The #discharged and it #sbarcoselettivo. Unacceptable language for choices a #Catania even more unacceptable, contrary to the principles of humanity and international rules. # Humanity1

– Enrico Letta (@EnricoLetta) November 6, 2022

The deputy of Verdi and the Italian Left Aboubakar Soumahoro, who during the night followed the disembarkation at the port of Catania of the fragile subjects, asked for immediate disembarkation: «A castaway has felt ill and there is not even an ambulance on the spot. President Giorgia Meloni, you have the responsibility of every life, currently suspended, on board the Humanity1 ship which is located in the port of Catania. Eight hours of inhumanity, eight heartless hours. Eight hours of people who have faced the cold, trauma, a real ordeal and hell ». According to the decree of the Ministry of the Interior, not all the castaways were allowed to leave the ship: «We are here – continues the parliamentarian – to assert the reasons of a state. Free all people ».

From the ship, Soumahoro – who denounced the absence of cultural mediators and psychologists on board – also addressed directly to Sergio Mattarella: «We are launching an appeal to the President of the Republic as guarantor of our Constitution: in a democratic context we cannot allow the use of the Charter as a ping pong pitch. We will not allow it, ever. Whoever lands in Italy lands in Europe. In Europe it cannot be said that the Italian borders are European, but then when shipwrecked land the borders are only Italian. But the government must also come out of its contradictions either it is with Orbán or on the other side. Salvini was among those who did not support the change of the Dublin Regulation. We are facing the witch hunt, the Jews know a lot and the blacks still know a lot, but above all they know very well today those who live processes of discrimination. Their fault is to speak another language, to have another color and that here it was decided not to talk about bills, unemployment and the South, but it was decided to use the weapon of mass distraction using the bodies of beings. human “.

For the deputy secretary of the Democratic Party Beppe Provenzano “The Meloni government in Catania violates law and humanity, separates minors from others with an arbitrary selection of the castaways. 24 people are held under ‘kidnapping’ for vulgar propaganda. Today we will be at the port, asking for respect for the law and human dignity ». Even the deputy dem Alessandro Zan he begins: «From Piantedosi, as a high-ranking official of the state, autonomy and balance were expected. Instead, the story of # Humanity1 shows that he speculates on the lives of migrants as the worst Salvini did from Papeete. What a shame”. For the president of the senators of the Democratic Party Simona Malpezzi “There are no words to explain what is happening because it is not possible to explain those new directives”.

The parent company Pd in ​​the House Debora Serracchiani he asked the owner of the Interior Ministry to report to Parliament: «The government must answer for an unacceptable management. In these hours in Catania international and national rules are not being followed, they are acting with procedures that have no precedent or justification and are seriously damaging to the rights of people who have the sole “fault” of having escaped from hell. And also of those who helped them, in full compliance with international standards. The government’s choice to arbitrarily distinguish who can disembark and who cannot also appear to be devoid of any legal basis. As some of our colleagues on the ship have also been able to verify, the boys on the ship are in a serious state of suffering, in some cases even serious. We therefore ask Minister Piantedosi to come to the Chamber to report on the choices made for the landing of Humanity1 in Catania. He made choices that seem illegitimate, in violation of international law and unacceptable from a humanitarian point of view ”.

Attack also the deputy of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein: «What happens in Catania is inhuman and illegal. The rescue ends with the disembarkation in the safe harbor. People on the ship cannot be kidnapped. Removing them would be collective rejection. The selection is arbitrary: they have the individual right to seek asylum. I disembark now ».

The radicals Massimiliano Iervolino, Giulia Crivellini and Igor Boni wrote a note against the measures of Minister Piantedosi: “The decrees prohibiting the Humanity 1 and Geo Barents ships from stopping in Italian territorial waters, limiting the rescue only to fragile people and in precarious health conditions are not only inhumane, but also legally illegitimate, because they constitute a form of collective refoulement (prohibited by the European Court of Human Rights) and because they violate the Geneva Convention. We join the appeals of the NGOs for all passengers on the ships to be dropped off immediately, recalling that in the past our country was condemned for similar violations of international law and inviting the captains of the ships not to comply with the illegal orders given by the Italian authorities. . Against this shameful conduct of our government, which opens a new season of real persecution against migrants and the criminalization of the organizations that help them, we will fight, as we have always done, with every nonviolent tool at our disposal ”.