Because of the Corona virus, European NGOs have been unable logistically to set out across the Mediterranean to pick up migrants off the coast of Libya. The below article in Il Giornale (Italy) reveals that the NGOs are just itching to get back out to sea. They clearly have no consideration for the people of Italy. Translation by Fousesquawk.
https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/sofferenze-dellitalia-ong-non-valgono-niente-1844114.html
The NGOs don't want to stop: Ready to bring (in) more migrants
The NGOs are (itching) to return to sea, for them there doesn't seem to be a problem, the fact that bringing migrants into Italy at this time, would constitute further difficulties for our country, exhausted by the battle against the Corona virus.
-Mauro Indelicato, Saturday March 21, 2020
It is true that in Libya, the war has not stopped, true that the emergency has lasted almost a decade, but that does not detract from (the fact) that the Italian conflict, that which our country is fighting against the Covid-19, is also causing pain and suffering in the population.
This is a principle perhaps almost banal to (bring up), but not for some representatives of NGOs, that are pawing to get back to the sea and bring in dozens of more migrants into Italy. The words of Riccardo Gatti, president of Open Arms, from a few days ago, seem rather eloquent: "In Libya, there are still men, women and children risking their lives every day," declared the head of the Spanish NGO. "In Libya, the Corona virus is not the only problem, their lives are violated. Every day."
"The young men of Open Arms consider themselves missionaries of immigration, brave paladins of the weakest, modern-day Robin Hoods," underlined Maurizio Belpietro in La Verita (The Truth). They want to return to Libya; for them it almost seems that the only suffering of note is that of those who live on the Mediterranean shore of Africa.
Not so important, therefore, if Italy today is not able to accept even one more person (considering) the thousands who, with difficulty and not a few risks, are restrained within the reception centers.
Not only Gatti and not only Open Arms, (but) the members of the French NGO, SOS Mediterranee are clawing, who yesterday declared that they have docked the Ocean Viking at Marseilles and respecting the anti-virus regulations in force also in France. "But we are working to return to sea as soon as possible," they wanted to report.
You are inside the port because you are forced by circumstances, not to avoid worsening the condition of a country, such as ours, exhausted and tested by an unexpected sanitary emergency and therefore, even more terrible to live in. All of Italy is under pressure by what is happening: (Not only) the citizens, but especially the doctors and volunteers in the ward who have not seen their own families for weeks in order to give hope for life to all those people who no longer have the strength to breathe on their own.
From the words of members of the NGO, there doesn't seem to be much compassion for Italy and for the Italians. When it is us who fall in the chasm of war, there is no humanity to show or maintain. And therefore it matters little that every single disembarkation in our country would amount to taking the forces of security rescue destined for our war, that which we are fighting against the virus.
A single landing of migrants in Italy today could mean dealing a very hard blow at the organizational level and not only for all those prefectures, already engulfed in work to better coordinate relevant logistical interventions relative to the battle against the virus.
An NGO representative who stresses the need to return to the Mediterranean, perhaps, ignores the emergency on land; perhaps, he has not seen the images of Bergamo cemeteries where tens of people cannot be buried because they lack the necessary spaces (and) has no idea of the hell that has landed on the entire peninsula.
Perhaps, it is not understood that Italy for now, is not a secure port, also that there is a war, and it is not possible to guarantee every ordinary assistance. It is said that, precisely, because in war, one would avoid all polemics, still it is impossible not to think of the silence of the governor. The NGOs are not returning to sea only because logistically, they cannot organize themselves, but when the conditions permit, the boats will again arrive to (engage) in reception as in times of peace. Nobody will prohibit them with the same firmness, in which Italians, justly, are asked not to do any outside physical activity.
And in the meantime, Europe, for its part, today still contributes in making this situation paradoxical: In Brussels, they are saying they have (reinforced) the external border, but the asylum-seekers will still be able to come in with no problem. A position that seems almost a wedding invitation for those NGOs, according to whom, the Italian war is a secondary problem and the suffering of our country, perhaps, not even to take into consideration.
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Fousesquawk comment: This should be a no-brainer. European governments should absolutely stop the flow of migrants, not only due to issue of terrorism, crime and Islam-with all its disruptive effects on European society, but as a sensible response to the contagion. They should not just enjoy the respite because the NGOs cannot logistically get out to sea. They should make it clear that these Mediterranean crossings (and all the other crossings) must be stopped-especially now during the outbreak, but also after it passes. This should be a wake up call to Europe. Unfortunately all the earlier wake up calls have not worked.
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