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Palermo 09/11/2009 - On the day of the visit of Minister Maroni
in Libya even an episode of failure to rescue
in the waters of the Strait of Sicily. As reported by the agency APCOM,
"two boats with one hundred immigrants on board have launched an SOS last night
while they were in the Strait of Sicily. The barges, according
as the spokesman of the Armed Forces of Malta, Major Ivan
Council are still in Libyan waters of competence and are not to be entered
those still in the jurisdiction of the Island of the Knights.
The Italian authorities were alerted and monitor the situation. "
According to GR 1 today, Monday morning, the Italian authorities are not intervening because
boats would be in a matter
Maltese waters, although the international conventions, however, to impose any state coastal
he has news for immediate action to save
lives in danger. Probably the Italian authorities are "monitoring" the situation to enable
Give Libyan patrol boats to reach the first
the barges loaded with migrants. In fact, both the Maltese Government that the Italian
are waiting for the Libyan patrol boats can prevent the
navigation of boats full of immigrants and bring them back to the
ports of departure.
To achieve this, perhaps the very day
Maroni's visit to Libya, the political and military authorities involved in this affair
are guilty of a serious offense, grounded, and still more at sea
: Omission rescue. The sea conditions are getting worse and is based in fact
believe that with the passing of the hours in the cold season
and the stormy sea, these choices will produce other political and military
death. Just as occurred in August when the boat load of Eritreans
abandoned for days at sea
the point of denying its existence, and still a few weeks ago with the vessel carico
di somali e di eritrei che alla fine è stato fatto entrare nelle acque
italiane, con un morto a bordo e numerose altre persone in fin di vita.
Appare
evidente come ormai le autorità italiane e maltesi non si “sporchino” più le
mani con i respingimenti collettivi, per i quali sono aperti procedimenti
penali davanti ai tribunali italiani ed procedimenti dinnanzi alla Corte
Europea dei diritti dell’Uomo, ma preferiscano delegare al mare, o ai libici,
il compito di arrestare la fuga dei migranti verso l’Europa. Anche nel caso
dell’eventuale riconduzione in un porto libico la sorte di queste persone
appare segnata, perché, come occurred recently in
similar cases, it will not just migrants who landed in Libya will be
locked for months in detention centers continue to be victims of abuse of any kind
. Misuse, the responsibility for which rests directly on those
European governments which have concluded agreements with Libya, and now also on
European Commission and the Council of the European
who would step up collaboration between the Agency for the control of
External Borders (FRONTEX) and the Libyan government.
ASGI Section Sicilian
hopes that MEPs are able to block this policy of collaboration
Union European countries with dictatorial regimes
the southern shore of the Mediterranean, a policy to combat illegal immigration
remove the fundamental rights of the human person, from
asylum. A policy that facilitates the mafias that words objectively
all claim to fight. Also expect the judiciary finally
Italian and the European Court of Human Rights to condemn the practice of omitting
joint rescue and the mass return.
ASGI
Sicilian appeals to all anti-racist associations
an immediate mobilization for publicizing the inhumanity of these new practices of cooperation
di polizia tra l’Italia, la Libia e Malta, una cooperazione che
passa attraverso la sistematica omissione di soccorso nei confronti dei
naufraghi che avrebbero diritto di essere condotti verso un porto sicuro, e che
invece vengono abbandonati in mare, magari per essere riconsegnati ai loro
aguzzini libici. Ancora una volta, sempre di più, il silenzio costituisce una
forma gravissima di complicità con gli abusi e con le violazioni reiterate del
diritto internazionale del mare e del diritto di asilo. Per questo chiunque
tace oggi su quanto sta accadendo nelle acque del Canale di Sicilia, sarà
responsabile della sorte di quei disperati che in queste ore sono abbandonati
nel mare in burrasca.
Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo – Asgi sezione Sicilia
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