NGOs challenge the government: it's battle in the Mediterranean – Exclusive videos
Of Francesca Totolo
For two days the German NGOs, Sea Watch e Sea-Eye, they are publicly challenging Giuseppe Conte's new government and in particular Matteo Salvini's Viminale to a duel.
The weapons in the hands of thehumanitarian” are i 342 migrants on board their ships, used as a real instrument of blackmail aimed at the Minister of the Interior.
Sea Watch and Sea-Eye patrolled the stretch of sea in front of the Beni Walid area for days, became sadly known on 25 May because it was the scene of a tragedy[1]: migrants tried to escape from a smugglers' shelter, and these so as not to lose "the goods” they opened fire on the fugitives.
For some time, all the NGOs involved in SAR operations in Libya have curiously moved to the aforementioned area of Beni Walid, abandoning that of Zuwara, west of Tripoli, where the Libyan Security Authorities arrested several traffickers and freed hundreds of migrants ready to leave for Italy.
In three different "rescues" including a curious transfer from Purpose of you, tugboat belonging to the same owner Vroon who rented the ship You Hestia a Save The Children until last October[2], Sea Watch e Sea-Eye, caught by very predictablebad weather, they started with the usual pressure to obtain from the MRCC in Rome (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre) the authorization to disembark in Sicily, obviously by mobilizing foreign political institutions and international organizations. Read More