144 of the 179 migrants landed in Catania on board the Humanity 1 of the NGO “Sos Humanity”, which arrived last night in the port escorted by a Coast Guard patrol boat.
Only fragile, women and children landed: all adult men without medical problems remained on the boat , which still remains in the Catania port.
"I'm not the captain, I don't decide - said NGO spokeswoman Petra Krischok - but leaving the port of Catania if all the migrants on board the ship were not to disembark would be illegal, because they are all refugees".
The disembarked people were welcomed at the Palaspedini, the sports hall. Humanity is only one of the four NGO ships that have asked for a port, shortly after the Geo Barents arrived, on board of which there are 572 people .
One hundred of these got off the ship: unaccompanied minors, women and families with minors.
And from the Interior Ministry they reaffirm the line adopted: " The people who have the requisites (fragile, women and children, ed) can disembark, the others must return outside the territorial waters ". And Piantedosi specifies: "Italy takes responsibility for what presents welfare and humanitarian problems, but without derogating from the fact that the obligations of taking charge belong to the flag State".
Humanity was asked to leave the port: “Today our captain Joachim Ebeling was contacted by the authorities to leave the port with the 35 survivors. Our captain replied to the email and explained that he cannot do it and that we will stay here with the survivors until they are disembarked ”.
Verdi-SI deputy Aboubakr Soumahoro also boarded the ship: “We are launching an appeal to the President of the Republic as guarantor of the Constitution, the Charter cannot be used as a ping pong field. Whoever lands in Italy lands in Europe, we are facing the witch hunt, Jews and blacks know a lot about it. It was decided not to talk about bills, unemployment and the South, but it was decided to use the weapon of mass distraction using the bodies of human beings ”.
“The residual cargo and selective landing. Unacceptable language for even more unacceptable choices in Catania, contrary to the principles of humanity and international rules ”, tweeted Pd Secretary Enrico Letta. Debora Serracchiani asks Minister Piantedosi to report in the courtroom: "He has to answer for an unacceptable management, international and national rules are not being followed, he is acting with procedures that have no precedent or justification and that are seriously detrimental to the rights of people who they have the sole fault of having escaped from hell ”.
(Unioneonline / L)
