matteo piantedosi

There are numerous rescue ships operating in the Mediterranean, however not enough to deal with the number of people in danger along one of the most dangerous migratory routes in the world.After the termination of the Mare Nostrum program in 2014, the Civil Fleet, the civilian fleet of monitoring and rescue ships active in the Mediterranean, has become practically the only resource for those risking their lives during the dangerous illegal crossing. The stretch of sea that extends from Libya or Tunisia to Italy represents a lethal physical barrier, especially for makeshift wooden or rubber boats, often recycled several times by traffickers.Until 2014, the Mare Nostrum operation, started in 2013 in response to the increase in shipwrecks in the Sicilian channel, it had a double mission:guarantee rescue at sea and criminally prosecute those who profit from the illegal trafficking of migrants.Shortly after the end of Mare Nostrum, replaced by Triton in 2014 - a European rather than jus...

When 94 people, including 35 children, drowned 40 meters from the Steccato di Cutro beach last February 26, the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said:“If we could, we would have saved the migrants.”And he had blocked the requests for transparency on the opaque chain of rescue and resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, for his words of rare inhumanity immediately after the tragedy and for the rescue intervention after the shipwreck had already occurred. The errors, flaws and falsehoods of the government's version of the Cutro massacre The government did not deliberately cause the migrants to die, Meloni responded to these requests while the blame and buck-passing between the Coast Guard (which reports to the Ministry of Transport) and the Financial Police (which reports to the Ministry of the Interior) continued. and Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency).Among those who claimed that they had been consulted only for information and that the...