Why does Rise Above land in Italy and Humanity 1 doesn’t? Facts and insights
Humanity 1 will soon have to leave the port of Catania. Why did the Rise Above ship land in Reggio Calabria? The chronicle and the comments of the experts
The Rise Above ship of the NGO Mission Lifeline arrived in the port of Reggio Calabria, escorted by 2 patrol boats from the Guardia di Finanza and the Harbor Master's Office , and disembarked all 89 migrants on board. For days it had been in front of the eastern coast of Sicily awaiting the assignment of a port. The comparison with the Sea-Watch ship Humanity 1 is inevitable, which for days has been stationed near the port of Catania and which has not been allowed to bring all the people on board to the mainland but only children and people with health problems. .
WHAT DOES "SEARCH AND RESCUE" MEAN
La Rise Above conducted a Search and Rescue action, in a Sar area . “ Search and Rescue ” identifies a series of rescue operations conducted by trained personnel with the use of specific naval, air or land vehicles, aimed at safeguarding human life in particular dangerous situations. Each country must establish its own SAR area , the one in which it is required to provide relief to the castaways.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RISE ABOVE, GEOBARENTS AND HUMANITY 1
How do the actions of the Rise Above ship differ from those of GeoBarents and Humanity 1? This was explained by Andrea Delmastro Delle Vedove, undersecretary at the Ministry of Justice, this morning at Omnibus: “The work of the government is oriented towards strict legality – said undersecretary Del Mastro -. In the case of the Rise Above we have the certainty of an operation that took place within the area and the legal boundaries of the Search and Rescue, while as regards Humanity 1 we have some difficulty in defining those who arrive transported by a naval support unit as shipwrecked. on another ship, absolutely without any breakdowns or emergencies. The ships of the NGOs have committed an offensive act, in defiance of the rules governing immigration, have carried out a specific activity in international waters aimed at transporting migrants who are economic migrants and are not shipwrecked. Outside the perimeter of the code of conduct identified by Minister Minniti ”.
MIGRANTS AND NON SHIPWRECKERS ON HUMANITY 1
The distinction, therefore, is in the status of a migrant, not a castaway. “ There is no right to immigration , to break the Italian immigration rules through NGO ships, this must be clear – said the undersecretary -. They are offensive passages, qualified as such by the international organizations of the law of the sea because they are made in contempt of the rules that regulate the right to immigration in Italy. They are outside the boundaries of Search and Rescue and therefore they face each other in these terms ”. This theme is combined with that of the relocation and assignment of migrants to EU states. “After that, why if you collect these economic migrants outside that legal area? Why don't you register them? Perhaps because if you register them, the host state, from that moment on, becomes that of the flag flying the ship? Why do you have to bring them to Italy to make our country a refugee camp in Europe? ”, Concludes Del Mastro.
88,100 THOUSAND MIGRANTS ARRIVED IN ITALY IN 2022, 35% IN 2021
According to the latest data from the Ministry of the Interior in our country in 2022, from 1 January to 7 November 2022, 88,100 people arrived. In the same period of 2021 there were 55,794 and in 2020 30,416.
THE REDISTRIBUTION OF MIGRANTS: ONLY 112 MIGRANTS OUT OF 10 THOUSAND PARTIES
Last June our country signed an agreement that provides for the annual relocation of about 10 thousand migrants , identified mainly among those rescued at sea following SAR operations in the central Mediterranean and along the western Atlantic route and then disembarked in the Member States of first entry into the Union. The agreement follows the Political Declaration of 10 June in Luxembourg by the European Home Affairs Council . Among the 18 Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania and Spain) and the 4 associated with the Union European Union (Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Iceland) who shared this Political Declaration of 10 June, France and Germany followed up on the commitment with the formalization of a first relocation package for migrants disembarked in Italy. But, to date, how many of the 10,000 migrants envisaged by the agreement have been relocated? Very few. Only 112 migrants : 38 in France who left in September and 74 in Germany who left on 25 October .
THE HARD FIST OF THE MINISTER WITH PLANT SCARES THE NGO SALVAMENTO MARÍTIMO HUMANITARIO
The NGO of Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario (SMH) of the Basque Country announced in a statement the postponement of a planned migrant rescue mission in the central Mediterranean. The non-governmental organization explains that this decision is due to "the uncertainties in Italy about the measures that the new far-right government could take ". The main risk, explained SMH, is that any Italian disciplinary measures against the NGO cause negative repercussions on the safety certifications of the Spanish naval sector in general, such as the increase in insurance policies.
Go on like this.
Italy will not be complicit in human trafficking.
Anyone starting to understand it? pic.twitter.com/jbGKzbo804– Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) November 8, 2022
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-rise-above-sbarca-in-italia-e-humanity-1-no-fatti-e-approfondimenti/ on Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:41:35 +0000.