WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Sicilia Libertaria, Oct-23: Editorial: STATE SCAPHISM (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

A decree from the Ministry of the Interior provides that asylum-seeking

migrants able to pay a "financial guarantee" of 4,938 euros can avoid
being locked up in a Permanent Repatriation Centre, and await the
outcome of their application in a more suitable structure. appropriate.
With this latest obscene stunt, which harks back to previous decrees of
the Prodi and Renzi governments suspended because the figure had never
been defined, and the most recent decree destroying Cutro's welcome, the
Meloni government combines its "state smuggling" solution with others
implemented in this hot summer: police charges, inhumane detentions,
emergency measures, aimed at the most sinister and repressive racism;
imprisonment of up to 18 months in internment centers for people guilty
only of coming from unlivable places and seeking a better future;
construction of new CPRs far from population centers to discourage
escapes, managed by the army to better control the migrants detained
there. All regions will be affected (to the grumbling of those led by
the Northern League), while Sicily is preparing to become a large hot
spot with the new CPRI of Pozzallo, inaugurated a few days ago in the
industrial area of Modica; a modern prison for migrants alongside the
port hot spot, and the new one planned for Porto Empedocle.

In this exciting phase of capture of illegal prey that threatens the
sacred borders, the court of Catania has entered and freed four Tunisian
boys, declaring the government decree unconstitutional and establishing
that coming from a "safe country" in itself cannot exclude the
application of protection rules; Judge Iolanda Apostolico also entered
into the merits of the arbitrary deprivation of liberty for individuals
who have not committed crimes but are only waiting for a response to
their request for international protection; and also contested the rule
on almost 5000 euros, which could not be paid by third parties but only
by those directly involved. An unexpected trip that made the president's
party cry out for an "ideological decision".

In Porto Empedocle we witnessed the shameful crowding of thousands of
migrants, mostly unaccompanied minors and women coming from journeys
characterized by violence, rape and torture, in a technostructure set up
in a concrete square, under the scorching sun, without of beds, chairs,
tables, surrounded by rubbish, immersed in the stench of piss and
controlled by police forces, managed by the Red Cross with a ban on
access to humanitarian organisations. Porto Empedocle, a bridge with
Lampedusa but less visible, where imprisoned migrants gave rise to
various protests, including an invasion of the town centre, to draw
attention to an unsustainable condition.

Even in Lampedusa the migrants protested, were subjected to charges by
the financial police, were treated like "invading enemies", and were
then hidden during the visit of Meloni and Von der Layen, when a
pacified and tense situation was to be shown clearly, while the
population took care of disturbing those 10 minutes of institutional
presence, protesting against the militarization of the island and the
inability to manage a situation that has been going on for many years
and is not at all emergency.

The government finds nothing better than considering the fleeing
populations as parcels to be returned, thus continuing the violence and
extortion that migrants suffer during long journeys, and then in the
places of departure towards Europe, be it Sfax or the Libyan ports. In
the midst of the media can-can, images arrived of the voluntary ramming
of a rubber dinghy by the Libyan Coast Guard and the subsequent
intervention of a naval vessel donated by the Italian government to
bring the survivors of the shipwreck back to the country's concentration
camps.

The paradoxical fact is that the opposition accuses Salvini and Meloni
of failure, showing all the ambiguity of those who have always been
complicit in anti-migration policies. What does failure according to PD
and 5 Stars mean? That they were unable to contain the flows? That they
failed to keep their promise to block the boats or close the ports?
Failure of the government because they would have succeeded instead?
Never have clear words come out on the legalization of flows, the
regularization of migrants, freedom of entry into Europe, which would
prevent violence and tragedies, blackmail and the growth of mafias, all
distorted effects of a system of dealing with violent and racist
emigration but still ineffective. Because it is impossible to stop an
epochal event resulting from the destruction of the social systems of
the countries of origin implemented by direct and indirect colonialist
policies, the geopolitical and social inequalities desired by
imperialism and capitalism, accentuated by climate change and by the
political-electoral exploitations taking place in Western European
countries. Woe to talk about the enormous debt accumulated by rich
countries towards African, Asian and Latin American countries, over
centuries of intensive exploitation of their resources and their
populations.

We are still witnessing the miserable attempts to finance the racist and
totalitarian Tunisian government in the spirit of externalizing the
borders of Europe, as already happens with Libya and Turkey or with the
sub-Saharan countries. Tunisia where the Salvinian and Melonian
"Italians first" is translated by Kaïs Saïed into "Tunisians first",
which in practice means segregation, hunting for illegal workers,
development of the mafia economy of smuggling. But also to the
tragicomedy which sees the North African president reiterating that he
does not want to be the guardian of other people's borders.

All this is hidden behind the infamous "Mattei Plan", the attempt to
reposition Italy at the center of the energy policies of the Maghreb
countries, making it the point of reference for their trade in the main
raw materials (oil and gas). Italy, by becoming the largest European
energy hub, will pay the governments of North Africa, one more fascist
and racist than the other, also contributing to their rearmament and the
training of their armed forces, coast guards in the first place, so as
to be able build an anti-migration safety belt.

A plan destined to fail not only due to the political and economic
contradictions within the EU, but above all because the Italian-European
billions will increase corruption and wars and will not serve to stop
the wave of migration. They didn't understand anything. Or more simply,
in their short-term strategy, useful only to win some electoral
campaigns, they don't give a damn about their future failures and other
people's tragedies.

This authorizes us to reiterate how the true abettors of illegal
immigration are precisely them: Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini, the
center-right government and the pseudo oppositions who have done nothing
other than adopt the same policies on the subject of immigration, except
for irrelevant changes of tones and periodic mea culpas in the face of
the papal reprimands, which are also the result of a game of roles whose
victims are those millions of "poor Christs" fleeing from their
homeland. It is these state smugglers who must be blamed for the over
2,500 deaths in the Mediterranean this year.

Pippo Gurrieri

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