• Zingaretti: "The Ocean Viking must land without ifs and buts"

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11 September 2019The situation for the Ocean Viking is not released. The ship of Sos Mediterranée and Msf, with 84 people on board in the Mediterranean, is still in international waters waiting for a safe harbor.

Libya in recent days offered the port of Tripoli but the NGO refused the offer and asked Italy and Malta for help. At first 50 people were saved, then, two days ago, another 34 rescued from the sailboat 'Josefa' over 60 miles from the Libyan coasts. Yesterday the transfer on the Ocean Viking.

Also yesterday the secretary of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, had said that the ship should have entered Italy "without if and without but" . A statement criticized by former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. "Great start ... Let's look at the facts if the 'new' government of the left will make the interests of the Italians defending the borders or reopen the ports again," he writes on Twitter.

Sciurba (Mediterranea): the government restores legality and lets the ship enter
"It is not a question of doing extraordinary things and no minister is obliged to apply the safety decree bis: the Italian government simply restores legality, even before common sense and humanity, to have the castaways disembark in the nearest safe harbor as the right he predicts, and then takes care of, the real problems of this country, demonstrating that he has learned his lesson, that he has understood the risks of making propaganda on people's skin ". He told the Adnkronos Alessandra Sciurba, a spokeswoman for Mediterranea Saving Humans, talking about the Ocean Viking ship.

"The dignity that he lost must be restored to politics, and unfortunately he began to lose with the migration policies inaugurated by the center-left in 2017 - says Sciurba - The change of course must be profound, cultural, serious. Land the castaways of today and tomorrow is only the first step ". "To cancel the criminal agreement with Libya and to stop providing money and means to militias and torturers is the second - explains Alessandra Sciurba - Opening regulated and safe entry channels, and claiming that all EU countries do the same, is the way to break the trafficking of human beings and to ensure that there are no more shipwrecked people to be rescued.