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Riccardo mazzoni
The new Open Arms mission in the Mediterranean ended this Friday afternoon in Palermo, with the transshipment of 140 migrants in the quarantine ship “Azzurra”, where the 123 people who had thrown themselves into the sea in the previous two days were already. Whether out of genuine desperation or simply as an organized tool of pressure on the Italian authorities, we will find out during the next rescues: since the method has worked, in fact, the chances of emulation by the next migrants rescued by NGOs are very high. But the point is different: the mission began on September 8, carried out three separate rescue operations, two in the Malta SAR area and one off Libya, and for ten days Malta and Italy refused to assign a port. safe landing at Open Arms.
However, the survivors, according to Emergency medical staff, were subjected to harsh tests due to the journey and the dramatic experience they had lived in Libyan prisons. Ten days without answers, therefore, during which NGOs had futilely sent increasingly heartfelt appeals: “Keeping people who are already victims of violence, abuse and long journeys in search of a better future wait so long is a violation of the fundamental human rights, the rights of the sea and our democratic constitutions “- Emergence thundered. Of the Italian left in government, however, only the voice – the only coherent one – of the former president of the Democratic Party Orfini had been raised:” What is happening with the Open Arms is simply unworthy. In fact, it is worthy of Salvini. Safe disembarkation must be allowed immediately, as it should be normal in a civilized country. “Otherwise, just silence: no delegation of parliamentarians had moved on board, no indignant mobilization by newspapers and televisions, and no prosecutor had felt the duty to seize the ship to force the government to disembark the ship. ship. castaway.
In short, the opposite of what happened in August a year ago, when the first Conte government – the yellow-green one – prevented the Open Arms itself from docking in Lampedusa, with 164 migrants who “were forced to stay on board. for six days, from August 14 until the execution of the preventive seizure, on August 20 (only for minors, until August 18, the date on which the disembarkation was authorized) “, as stated in the authorization request to proceed against the then Interior Minister Salvini who departed from the Court of Ministers of Palermo. Who added: “The prolongation of their stay on board the Open Arms, due to the precarious health, psychophysical and logistical conditions in which they were, certainly affected their freedom of movement in a significant way and, therefore, legally appreciable” . , referring to what was indicated by the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Agrigento Patronaggio, who had felt the duty to come on board to inspect the ship.
After the approval of the Senate with the vote in the July classroom, on October 3 Salvini will go to trial for kidnapping and omission of office documents. For Minister Lamorgese, who a year later prevented the disembarkation of migrants from the Open Arms for days, however, the Judiciary did not move in the least, evidently believing that hers was a legitimate political choice. But why her yes and Salvini’s no? And here, rewinding the tape, Palamara’s interceptions come to mind, and his theorem according to which Salvini must be attacked “even if he is right.” This is Italy, where the law is not the same for everyone, and where mandatory prosecution is a switch turned on and off according to political expediency.
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