The facts of Crotone put everyone in front of the effects of a fascist management
of the institutions and the State: the abandonment of the very concept ofsolidarity in the application of the "law of the sea" which obliges the rescue ofsailors acts as a litmus test.What we say is demonstrated by the fact that as theTurkish caique approaches, two patrol boats of the Guardia di Finanza arealerted, in charge of contrasting illegal emigration and not the Coast Guard,which is competent to operate rescue at sea and equipped with suitable means.This decision is the perverse result of the policy initiated by the first Salvinidecree approved - it should be remembered - by the first Conte government - andapplied today thanks to the holders of the Ministry of the Interior and that ofTransport, on which the two bodies of the state respectively depend.A turning point that comes from afarMinniti began to inaugurate a repressive policy of sea rescue activity acceptedby the NGOs with the intention of removing space for Northern League propagandaby legitimizing the Libyan concentration camps, paying the traffickers, so thatthey would disguise themselves as the Libyan coast guard and so that with patrolboats supplied by Italy would limit the flow of migrants. The subsequentGovernment of the League and 5 Stars provided the legal basis for the containmentof relief activities and applied it by increasingly repressing those who providedaid.With the worsening of the economic and climatic crisis, emigration strengthenedthanks to the exodus from North Africa and above all from Tunisia, choosing the"do it yourself". Currently traffic with small boats connects North Africa toSicily to the point that today 80% of those who arrive by sea disembarkindependently, or are accompanied and beached on the Sicilian coasts.But if the arrival from Africa is the most striking and media-related fact of themigratory phenomenon, alongside this route there is the Balkan route which skirtsthe north of the country. It is a terrible route, where death does not come fromthe sea, but from hardship, from suffering, from the cold, from the beatings ofthe policemen of the countries crossed, from the electrified barriers with whichthe territories are covered.As an alternative to this route, there has always been a sea route that takesmigrants from Egypt and Turkey to the Ionian coasts. It is a route not patrolledby NGOs, now forced to leave the areas of operation in front of the African coastunguarded, rejected in the ports of the North of the country by the migrationpolicy of the current government, which fines them, forces them to carry out asingle rescue at a time, it forces them to make punitive stops. The harbormaster's offices of the Ionian coast know this well and in fact, in the past,there was no shortage of relief efforts.But now things have changed and the management of the surveillance service haschanged, imposing the action of border surveillance as a priority. This approachmeans that with a stormy sea, the approach of a vessel clearly loaded withmigrants becomes only a super police action, carried out by two Finance patrolboats which are sent to monitor the expected beaching of the vessel in order tothen be able to report and intercept the illegal immigrants on the shore. Acynical behavior that befits two "bad people" such as those in charge of theministries of the interior and of the navy, who have made their vision of theinstitutional tasks of a body, that of the Coast Guard, made up of sailors alwaysin solidarity with the people of the sea and anyone who is in danger.The obligation to helpAnd yet, it was not difficult to foresee, after the earthquake in Anatolia, whichcost 50,000 dead, after the devastation it produced, in addition to that of thewar in Syria, Iraq and the repression of the Kurdish people, that the river ofdesperate humanity , swelled by those fleeing repression in Iran and Afghanistan,would eventually swell the flow of desperate fleeing. Indeed there are all theelements to think that the journeys of those who will travel the same route canonly increase massively, precisely because of the events mentioned. It istherefore to be feared that this is only the first of many other disasters.In this context, what is serious and must scandalize is not the fact that theprime minister did not deem it appropriate to pay homage to the bodies of thedead, but that, hypocritically, she observed a minute of silence in their memory,together with her cronies, responsible of the politics of the various statesparticipating in the G20.http://www.ucadi.org/2023/03/22/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-omissione-di-soccorso/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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