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Strongly wanted by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, the anti-NGO decree was adopted by the Senate on Monday 6 August. It gives more powers to the government against NGOs saving migrants in the Mediterranean.
The Senate voted Monday night confidence in the Italian government on a new round of security and anti-migrant visa demanded by the Minister of the Interior , Matteo Salvini (far right).
The text gives the minister broad powers to ban territorial waters from ships that have rescued migrants, confiscate NGO boats and impose fines on their commanders of up to € 1 million.
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" We talk as if all the migrants were delinquents "
Dozens of Italians and immigrants demonstrated in Rome in front of the Senate against the new law which, from their point of view, will not improve security in Italy, but will fuel the climate of intolerance and xenophobia. Emery Enogo Bavogui, a nurse from Guinea, testifies to this xenophobia:
" What shocks us is that we talk as if all migrants were delinquents. I am a nurse, I work in the hospital. I attend Italians, sick people. After a day of work full of ambition, full of love, we come, 30 minutes later, on the sidewalk, they insult me, they say "go home" . Salvini never spoke about an immigrant who was attacked, who was offended. Me, I have a project to return to the fold. After 30 years here, I still feel foreign. "
Financing risk of dictatorships
For its part, the NGO Amnesty International lambasted measures that " do not improve the security of anybody " and has indignant an article establishing a fund for countries willing to take back migrants, which " risk funding dictatorships, ultimately driving up the number of people on the run . "
Already adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, the text on which the populist government had asked the question of confidence passed with 160 votes for (57 votes against) and the abstention of opposition parties of right and extreme right (21 voice).