Time.news – Italy, Malta and Libya are accused of the shipwreck in which 100 to 130 migrants died in the Mediterranean, and, this time, the reconstruction of the NGOs coincides with that of Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency: “One of our surveillance planes in the area spotted a gray dinghy with dozens of people adrift off the Libyan coast. The plane immediately alerted the national rescue centers in Italy, Malta and Libya, as required by international law“, writes the latter, reiterating what is contained in the report by Alarm Phone.
This in turn sounds like un j’accuse to the countries of the area: “The only action taken was the overflight by a Frontex surveillance plane, seven hours after the first alarm, which identified the boat and informed all the Authorities and merchant ships in the area about the critical situation of danger “.
The toll of shipwrecks could increase. There has been no news for days of another boat, on which there are 42 people. Ocean Viking, the ship of Sos Mediterranee that yesterday had arrived at the site of the first shipwreck, was also looking for the boat with the 42, of which, he explained Alessandro Porro, president of the NGO, “we have not found any trace”. “We can only hope – he added – that she has returned to the ground or in any case come to safety”.
“For over 24 hours – continues Porro – the Ocean Viking was chasing destinies in the sea, those of two boats in difficulty, very distant from each other”. The dinghy with over 100 people on board “was chased through a storm, in a night with waves six meters high …In the afternoon the My Rose ship spotted him, we approached him and he was sailing in a sea of corpses. Literally. Little remained of the boat, not even the name of the people. Powerless, we had a minute of silence, to echo on the lands of men. Things have to change, people know“.
States, he wrote on Twitter Safa Msehli, spokesman for the International Migration Organization, a UN agency – they refused to take action to save the lives of over 100 people. They begged for help for two days before drowning in the Mediterranean cemetery. Is this the legacy of Europe? “The answer is David Sassoli: “National governments – says the President of the European Parliament – give powers and mandates to the European Union to intervene, save lives, create humanitarian corridors and organize mandatory reception … On the dynamics of this latest massacre, the European Parliament wants clarity to be made immediately and any faults ascertained“.
If the European Commission remains in an embarrassing silence, the Italian government is also silent. Among the party leaders they speak only Matteo Salvini and, in the late evening, Enrico Letta: “Shipwreck off the coast of Libya. More deaths, more blood on the conscience of the do-gooders who, in fact, invite and facilitate smugglers and traffickers to put very old boats and boats into the sea, even in bad weather conditions”, wrote the head of the league . “The horror must push us to act – said the secretary of the Democratic Party on Twitter – not to be silent. Not to turn away. The humanitarian corridors managed by the UN are the solution”. “We must defend the European borders”. , Nicola Molteni reiterated, the man Salvini wanted as undersecretary of the Interior. The owner of the Interior Ministry, Luciana LamorgeseInstead, it limited itself to a note of pragmatism to let it be known that during the meeting with the Libyan Foreign Minister, Najla El Mangoush, scheduled for some time, there has been talk of migratory flows and “to intensify cooperation programs and bilateral security agreements”.
The very ones that the NGOs accuse: “The so-called Libyan Coast Guard – explains Alarm Phone – refused to launch or coordinate a rescue operation, leaving about 130 people in the open sea for a whole night”. In the Foreign Affairs Commission in parliament El-Mangoush defends the Libyan coast guard and warns: “The flows won’t stop”. “In light of what has happened in these hours in the Strait of Sicily – he underlined Riccardo Magi, deputy of Piu ‘Europa-Radicali – the establishment of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the implementation of the Italy-Libya agreements appears to be really no longer postponable; there is also a need for discontinuity in this area, all the more so after the words of the Foreign Minister of Libya “.
2021 is about to become one of the blackest for migrants. The shipwreck of the 130 is the “most serious, for loss of life, in the central Mediterranean since the beginning of the year”, says the UN. “So far – UNHCR continues – in 2021 alone, at least another 300 people drowned or disappeared in the central Mediterranean. This is a significant increase over the same period last year, when around 150 people drowned or disappeared along the same route. ”
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