“We do not collaborate with Open Arms. Their intervention? An isolated case”. Speak Molteni

The Northern League undersecretary at the Viminale after the interventions of the NGO at the request of the Coast Guard: “We will never legitimize those who, financed by foreign subjects, try to carry out search and rescue independently”

. “I’m not going back a millimeter, we don’t collaborate with Open Arms”. To speak is Nicola Molteni, undersecretary of the League to the Ministry of the Interiorman of the former leader of the “closed ports” Matteo Salvini at the Viminale, after that, as told by this newspaper, last July 6 The Italian coastguard has asked the NGO Open Arms not once, but six times to carry out rescues at sea. Have the government and the League therefore rehabilitated the NGOs? “Absolutely not”, Molteni stops us immediately. “What they do is not legitimate, it cannot be delegated to a foreign entity financed by foreigners, sea rescue must be done by the Italian authorities: the Harbor Master’s Office and the Coast Guard”, says the undersecretary.