The admiral on leave of the Port Authorities: “It is as if in the face of a fire that is devouring houses and people is sent the police who must identify the arsonist. No, they have to call themselves the fire brigade.”
From the decrees security onwards, a “institutional distortion” was grafted, “a sort of vice” for which the migration phenomenon is considered first of all a police case on which to investigate, already at sea. And international conventions say that people must be saved. What happened in Cutro, 67 lives lost by drowning and hypothermia, “could happen sooner and could repeat itself”. Vittorio Alessandro, 67, admiral on leave of the Port Authorities, has a very clear idea of how “a great resource: the experience and quality of our Coast Guard” is canceled if “the rescue must be subjected to police supervision”, if those at the top of that coordination have the aim of looking for those responsible for illegal immigration rather than saving people: “It is as if in the face of a fire that is devouring people. No, they have to call themselves the fire brigade.” Alessandro, who took care of the safety at sea, the rescue and the protection of the marine environment in the Capitanerie of Naples, Civitavecchia and Rome and commanded the ports of Sant’Antioco, Portoferraio and La Spezia, at Fattoquotidiano.it explains how the “dissonante element” that probably led to an “undervaluation” of what was starting to happen 40 miles from the Calabrian beach. A complaint about “a dangerous orientation” and not an indictment “with which they are sought guilty”.
In an interview, Admiral said that what happened to Cutro can be attributed to an institutional “vice”: that is, with the de facto passage to the Ministry of the Interior of the decision whether a rescue intervention shots or not.
In recent years there has been an increasingly clear slide towards a police setting on the rescue of boats with large numbers. So we are talking about the rescue of migrants. Now this different institutional orientation does not deal with the rules and conventions that speak of saving human lives at sea. And not to verify who, how, when or why. The practice now, starting from Salvini’s security decrees onwards, has meant that the coordination of activities at sea is now subjected to super coordination for rescue activities.
It happened that the theme of hospitality has expanded to the sea. As if at sea, and here there is a cultural deficiency, one can decide who deserves and who does not deserve hospitality. And recently this activity has been moved to the quay with the story of the residual cargo. All this has nothing to do with the maritime rescue and law enforcement activities and therefore anti-immigration police must take place on the ground because if they move to the sea they risk producing Sibilla-type phenomena when in the Otranto canal the Navy ship tried to intercept the route of a large tugboat that came from Albania (On March 28, 1997 the dead were 108. Government Prodi ed ndr). From the moment they leave, whether or not there is the smuggler, who are able to arrive with his own means or not, at sea the activity is a switch: except, except, without prejudice.
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