Nicola Fratoianni, leader of the Italian Left and AVS parliamentarian, returns to the acquittal of the Iuvenia crew, decided by the Trapani court.
«Today in a courtroom in our country another demolition of the conspiracies and prejudices against NGOs and those ships that save lives in the Mediterranean. A victory for justice and humanity. On the incredible Iuventa affair, however, it took 7 years: years of nightmare for the volunteers accused of being in the pay of human traffickers, years in which a ship that could continue to save people was forced to stop and today it’s a rusty wreck.”
«But now those who orchestrated the media and political campaign against the NGOs, and did everything to prevent their action, should examine their conscience and look in the mirror. Both those who held government positions at the time and those right-wing politicians who thundered like Sen. Malan “…here is the evidence that humanitarian-smuggling NGO ships enter Libyan waters…(April 2017)” or as the sen. Gasparri “…we were right, NGOs are organizations that fuel the invasion of Italy, that help those who practice human trafficking. 10-100-thousand seizures of ships like this (August 2017). Will they now have the courage to go on TV to apologize?”.
