The revolution at the top of the 007 will start as early as tomorrow, when the Government will start the official procedure for the change to the Aise and the Dis, the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Department of Security Intelligence: Alberto Manenti and Alessandro Pansa could leave their positions on Tuesday, anticipating a decision from Palazzo Chigi which will arrive this week. Read More
Poor Constitution, pulled left and right for convenience and partisanship. And now the writer who hates Salvini does it too
Of Alessandro Sallusti
Roberto Saviano, probably from his New York penthouse where he lives well protected (or perhaps from some pleasant place, secret and armored holiday resort) writes that Matteo Salvini should be arrested because – preventing the disembarkation of 177 immigrants saved at sea by our Coast Guard – he is violating the Constitution on which he was sworn in as minister.
Poor Constitution, pulled left and right for convenience and partisanship. Saviano hates Matteo Salvini, it is his right guaranteed by the Constitution, which was also designed to allow people like him – and to all the ignorant, arrogant, stupid and wicked – to be able to freely express their thoughts. But fortunately the Constitution also says other things. For example – article one – that sovereignty belongs to the people, not to writers or even to magistrates. And the people decided that Salvini should be in government, not Saviano's friends. Amici, like Boldrini, who were soundly rejected precisely because of their ideas on immigration.
Let's go further. The Constitution determines and regulates the rights and duties of Italian citizens, not those of Tunisia or Niger. Obviously – article two – requires everyone to respect the inviolable rights of man, which in the case of the immigrants in question are not those of landing in Catania but of being saved, look after yourself, and cared for. Things that have happened and are happening in conditions of maximum safety on board the Diciotti ship. And we are also in full compliance with article ten, who recites: «…the legal status of the foreigner is regulated by law in accordance with international norms and treaties", given that the rescue of these desperate people took place in Maltese waters and therefore their landing place – on the basis of the treaties – it's not Catania but it had to be Malta or, in the alternative, in part among all the countries of the European Community. Read More
Now, due to Salvini's fault, the toy has broken, but them, evidently, they have no intention of giving up
Of Gian Micalessin
«Once is a coincidence, twice a coincidence, three times it is an action of the enemy". Matteo Salvini and the infrastructure minister Matteo Toninelli would do well to re-read Ian Fleming.
The actions of the Diciotti ship, the Coast Guard patrol vessel, for the third time at the center of a clash with the Government in less than two and a half months, in fact, they seem more like studied moves than simple coincidences. The chronicle of the silent dispute between the Coast Guard, on the one hand, and the Ministry of Infrastructure, on which in theory it depends, and the Interior Ministry on the other begins towards 10 of June. While Salvini recommends the end of the rescue operations in front of Libya and the Aquarius ship of SOS Mediterranee is kept away from Italian ports, the patrol vessel Diciotti carries out seven interventions near the coast of Tripoli, charging 937 migrants. Migrants that Salvini and Toninelli are forced to disembark in Catania. But Diciotti's incursions don't end there.
Il 9 July the patrol vessel approaches the tug Vos Thalassa and loads 67 migrants who, according to a version that has never been clarified – they threatened the on-board staff who were guilty of wanting to disembark them in Libya instead of Italy. The version does not convince Matteo Salvini who makes it clear that he considers it a pretext to justify the intervention of the Coast Guard unit. But the fatal move capable of bringing the clash with the Coast Guard into the open comes on Wednesday. That day the patrolman Diciotti intervenes to the rescue of a boat with 177 migrants just as the government is pressuring Malta to welcome them into one of its ports. An absolutely unmotivated intervention given that the boat is not in immediate danger and it is carried out, as Matteo Salvini notes, without the knowledge of the Interior Ministry. «Yesterday the Maltese had taken responsibility for an intervention to help a boat with 170 immigrants on board explains the Minister of the Interior – and a ship of the Italian Port Authority, without the Interior Ministry being informed of it, took the immigrants on board while they were still in Maltese waters, to head towards Italy". Read More
Of Adolfo Spezzaferro
For the first time, an Italian ship, after having rescued the immigrantsin mare, brought them back in Libya. It's about the Ace Twenty-Eight, a support vessel for an oil platform, That, in application of what has been established by the Italian government, coordinated with the Tripoli Coast Guard which is competent in those waters for the management of SAR search and rescue operations.
The boat, reports The Press, “it seems he followed the indications from the Coast Guard operations center which ordered the commander of Asso via radio from Rome 28 to coordinate with the Tripoli Coast Guard. Essentially the order was to bring those migrants back to Libya.".
“We have learned that one of the dinghies reported today by the Italian Coast Guard with 108 people on board in the Mediterranean were rescued by the ship Asso Ventotto, flying the Italian flag, which is heading towards Tripoli. We do not yet know whether this operation takes place on the recommendation of the Italian Coast Guard, but if that were the case it would be a very serious precedent, a truly collective rejection for which Italy and the ship's commander will answer before a court“, he said Nicola Fratoianni of Free and Equal, aboard the Open Arms. “International law – he adds – provides that people rescued at sea must be taken to a safe port and those in Libya, despite the mystification of reality by the Italian government, cannot be considered as such". Read More