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Turkey yes, Italy no. There is anger and bewilderment in Mazara del Vallo, in the province of Trapani after the liberation, which took place this afternoon, of the Turkish ship “Mabouka”, which with its entire crew of seven sailors had been captured by General Khalifa Haftar’s militia. in eastern Libya on December 5. The announcement was made directly by Haftar’s military spokesman, General Ahmed al Mismari, who said the ship paid a fine for violating Libyan waters. A story very similar to that of the Italian fishermen.
“We learned with amazement that the Turkish freighter has been released while our fishing boats with 18 sailors on board are still blocked in Libya since last September 1,” says Tommaso Macaddino, from Uila Pesca who is currently in the chamber of the council in Mazara. occupied, for more than 90 days, by the families of the detained fishermen. “The Turkish cargo released through a ransom was stopped with the same raiding motive presented to our fishing boats,” Macaddino urges.
“We are outraged that our relatives are being treated differently than reserved for Turks. My husband and the other men had gone to work, we no longer pay taxes. The chancellor has to take our loved ones home, we are outraged.” . and ready to mount extreme protests ”, shouts Cristina Amabilino, wife of Bernardo Salvo, one of the sailors. Meanwhile, the protest with banners and whistles has moved in front of the house of the parents of Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede, a fellow citizen of the protesters. “You are incompetent – shouts Giuseppe Giacalone, owner of one of the fishing boats that escaped the night of the kidnapping and father of one of the seafarers who are still ‘detained’ in Libya – How is it possible that they were 7 miles from Tobruk And have they already been free and we are still here screaming for 102 days? ”
“Incredulous” also the mayor of Mazara, Salvatore Quinci who speaks of “a feeling of bewilderment and disbelief at this time.” The mayor should have met for hours in videoconference with foreign affairs chief Luigi Di Maio, Repubblica reported. “I will tell the minister: there is no anger towards him or towards the government, but in Mazara del Vallo we have tremendous pain and loneliness. The state does not seem to be able to protect us. The mothers, wives and children of the 18 seafarers kidnapped by Haftar just want them to go home. They pray to spend Christmas together. Every morning we wake up and we are like zombies waiting for news ”.
But at night he blurted out: “We feel that our state doesn’t count for anything. More than a hundred days of waiting is really too many: a long time. And now the story of the liberation of the Turkish ship is generating enormous anger among our fellow citizens. Waiting for the release of their relatives. It seems that our government does not have what it takes to solve this situation. We feel unprotected, “says Quinci.
The former parliamentarian and former mayor of Mazara for 10 years, Nicola Cristaldi, also snapped: “This is the demonstration of the marginality of the foreign policy of our country. It is a defeat of the Italian institutions at all levels and the silence of the institutions seem something disturbing local that must activate forms of protest, even sensational, to achieve the liberation of our fishermen ”.
And Brothers of Italy also jump on the controversy: “It is the plastic demonstration of the total failure of Di Maio’s foreign policy in Libya. Thanks to Di Maio and his inconsistent policy of secret diplomacy, Italy no longer counts for anything even in Libya. ”, Declares Andrea Delmastro, Fdi deputy.
