An intervention carried out at “8 hours of navigation from Sicily” and from Malta it becomes a valid reason for the NGO to obtain a nearby port for the subsequent disembarkation. The Italian authority has instead assigned a quay in the port of Ortona in Abruzzo to the Norwegian ship Ocean Viking. A decision that non-governmental organizations continue to challenge Italy but which the relevant institutions of our country can take in the utmost interest of Italy’s security.
The intervention took place in the research area shared by Italy and Malta, therefore there is already an element on which to contest the usual point: why not press the Maltese borders, how do you press the Italian ones? A question to which the opposition often tries to respond with very weak arguments, including Malta’s inability to take on a large number of migrants, given that it is a small state. But a similar justification, in this specific case, cannot hold up, given that Ocean Viking travels with just 35 migrants on board.
Yet, the final destination, the one to which the NGOs are aiming, always remains Italy. Or rather, he would like to be there Sicily for these organizations, for obvious economic reasons. What they are aiming for, and it is now clear to everyone, is to have a port in southern Sicily from which to leave from time to time to go back and forth with the international waters. Once the recovered migrants have been brought ashore, they return to sea in a continuous cycle that would allow them to save significant capital.
It is a continuous pressure from NGOs, which is impossible not to characterize from one point of view politic. That of the civil fleet, which is supported by the usual acronyms that are now in the opposition, is an ideological battle waged against the government. While on the one hand there are the authorities who try to manage the migratory phenomenon, reducing illegality and deaths at sea, the NGO ships continue undaunted in bringing into the country people whose previous history cannot be traced provenance with certainty and which are also difficult to repatriate, as their countries of origin often refuse to collaborate. Maybe they know something that Italy doesn’t know.
But beyond this, what emerges once again is the precise and clear desire of these organizations to focus on Italy and to demand assistance from our country for what is a practice which from certain points of view has features not legal.
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