Three underage girls and a 7-month-old baby were the first castaways from Humanity 1 , the ship of the NGO "Sos Humanity" which landed in Catania with 179 migrants.
After the health inspections, a so -called "selective" landing began, that is, allowed only to minors, women to the frail. In the morning there are still about thirty people on board.
“Worn bodies of castaways already exhausted by cold, fatigue, trauma and torture are considered objects, by the will of Giorgia Meloni's government. A shame! ", Wrote on Twitter the deputy of Verdi and the Italian Left, Aboubakar Soumahoro, who is at the port of Catania.
In all, there were four NGO ships that for days, off the Sicilian coast, had been asking for a safe harbor: over a thousand migrants on board. The Interior Ministry reiterated the line adopted: " Those who have the requisites can disembark", but "the others must return outside the territorial waters ". Position remarked by the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, who, from Milan, underlined that Italy takes "responsibility for what presents welfare and humanitarian problems", but "without derogating from the fact that the obligations of taking into cargo are the responsibility of the flag State " and" without failing to fulfill its humanitarian obligations on which we will never back down ".
Interlocutions have already been initiated with European countries such as France which have expressed their willingness to accept a quota of migrants. But for the NGO Sos Humanity the measure "is illegal" because the 179 people rescued are " refugees, in a vulnerable state, some of them visibly traumatized: they need medical and psychological treatment".
(Unioneonline / ss)
