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“What this government wants to do is to go and look for smugglers all over the globe,” declared the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in the press conference of Cutro, a few days after the shipwreck that led to the death of 92 people.The so-called smugglers seem to have become the heart of the government's line on immigration, with a new decree which further tightens the penalties for those who drive a boat carrying migrants.The persecution of smugglers is not a new strategy:in the last decade it has been a cornerstone of Italian and European migration policies.What has it meant so far? Is this really the solution to stopping departures and deaths at sea?And who really are the smugglers? “We cannot fail to see that it is a very hot political issue and that there is a strong demand, just read the newspapers, for the punishment of the highest possible number of smugglers on the face of the earth", explains to Blue suitcase Gigi Omar Modica, magistrate who has been dealing with irregular im...

Apostolic Case:the government has not yet been able to answer who took the judge back Update October 13, 2023: In recent days, the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi and the undersecretary Nicola Molteni responded to questions on the Apostolic case in the Constitutional Affairs Commission.As reported from various newspapers, in both circumstances the doubts about the origin of the video released last week, in particular by Matteo Salvini and the League, and filmed in 2018 during a demonstration to ask for the disembarkation of the migrants stranded on the Diciotti ship were not resolved. As reports Republic, Piantedosi confirmed what was said by the Catania Police Headquarters:"in none of the documents drawn up at the time by the personnel employed in the public order services and following the events that occurred during the demonstration, is Dr. Apostolico mentioned".Piantedosi also specified that the police do not use facial recognition software for the images collect...

On Wednesday night, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Pylos, in the Aegean Sea, on the coast of the Peloponnese;the boat had set sail from Tobruk, Libya and was headed to Italy.There were 79 confirmed victims and hundreds of missing people, but it is not possible to calculate with certainty how many people were on board.The route from North Africa to Italy via the central Mediterranean is the deadliest in the world, according to the United Nations migration agency, which has recorded more than 17,000 deaths and disappearances since 2014. Why people continue to die in the Mediterranean According to the first reconstructions, there were up to 400 people on board, but a network of activists said they had received a distress call from a boat that was in the same area and which, according to passengers, was carrying 750 people.After the first alarm, Frontex aircraft and two merchant ships spotted the vessel heading north at high speed, according to the...

It was July 2016 when Adama Traoré, a twenty-four-year-old Frenchman, died of suffocation in a police station in Persan, in Val-d'Oise, north of Paris, after a chase with the police following a check.Thanks to the legal battle carried out by her sister, Assa Traoré, who never accepted the expert report which excludes any responsibility of the police and blames her death on an alleged genetic disease, the case is now jurisprudence in France. Meanwhile, Assa Traoré has become the symbolic face of the French anti-racist movement.During the protest against the death of George Floyd in 2020, the committee The truth pour Adama (Truth for Adama) led by her, it brought more than 20,000 people to the streets of Paris.This July 8, 2023 he gathered them another 2,000 in Place de la République despite the prefecture's ban on demonstrations due to "risk of disturbing public order".Even during this Saturday's march the police did not spare themselves.A ventral tackle was used on Yssoufou Traoré...

Council of Europe:'The memorandum of understanding signed by Italy and Albania raises several human rights concerns and adds to a worrying European trend towards the outsourcing of asylum responsibilities' Update November 17, 2023: Through a note from the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based humanitarian body, the Council of Europe expressed serious doubts on the protocol signed between Italy and Albania for the management of migrants.“The MoU raises a number of important questions about the impact its implementation would have on the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants,” the statement reads."These concern, among others, timely disembarkation, the impact on search and rescue operations, the fairness of asylum procedures, the identification of vulnerable persons, the possibility of automatic detention without adequate judicial review, conditions of detention, access to legal aid and effective remedies". "The agreement - continue...