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Another landing. Once again the government opens the doors to our shores in Ngo. This time it’s Open Arms. The Ministry of the Interior has assigned the port of Trapani to the ship of the Spanish NGO. Therefore, the executive yielded to the pressure of the NGO that in the afternoon had announced that it was off the coast of Lampedusa: “At this moment, 259 people, 12 women and 247 are staying on the deck of our ship. men, including 80 minors (76 unaccompanied) and 5 bodies without life, 3 men and 2 women. The castaways, who come mainly from Eritrea, Togo, Sudan, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Burundi, Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire, they are in precarious physical and psychological health conditions and must be able to disembark in a safe port as soon as possible, “explained Open Arms and Emergency. At this moment,” they add, our ship, OpenArms, is off the coast from Lampedusa, waiting to receive information on how and where to guarantee our guests the attention they need ”.
Taking stock of the bailouts Open arms emergency Let us remember that “after leaving the port of Barcelona on November 4 with our ship, the Open Arms, heading to the central Mediterranean for our 78th search and rescue mission with Emergency, we found ourselves having to operate in a difficult and dramatic context. There were many reports of ships in distress that had to be rescued, but no humanitarian or government structure in the area other than ours. ” Then pressure on the Italian government to obtain a landing port. And apparently at night (for the umpteenth time) the NGO found a docking point on our shores. And the mayor of Lampedusa, Totò Martello, also intervened in the rescue of Open Arms, which after expressing his pain over the shipwreck of these days that cost the life of a six-month-old girl, called for a quick intervention by Europe to curb sea crossings: “On the eve of the definition of the new EU Pact on migration and the right to asylum, we ask the EU institutions to carefully evaluate the ‘Global Compact for Migration’, the document of the United Nations that indicates the principles for an ‘orderly, regular and safe’ migration. Only with migratory flows regulated through the participation of all the Member States can other innocent victims be avoided “.
