Salerno
“No one questions the well-established and tested machine that is mobilized every time the port of Salerno becomes a disembarkation point for migrants usually saved in the waters of the Sicilian channel. But this perfect machine has nothing to do with the reception, these are simple disembarkation operations involving human beings, and are carried out with all the sensitivity and humanity that such an operation requires. This is what is done in all Italian ports where the ships they rescue migrants are “forced” to set sail”. He states this in a note Anselmo Botterepresentative of the Antiracist Forum of Salerno who highlighted the difficulties that NGO ships encounter in reaching the ports designated for landings.
“The Geo Barents, a ship of the NGO Doctors Without Borders, had to travel I don’t know how many nautical miles in I don’t know how long to reach Salerno; I know for a fact, however, that its crew cursed that route imposed by a government a thousand times who defined migrants as “residual cargo”, and who as such treats them without a shred of humanity. I believe that these considerations must be at the center of every reasoning that is made when we talk about landings in our waters, and reflect on the fact that everything. the weather
that is lost to NGOs to sail the waters of half of Italy (even the whole of it) and the wait in our port, is all time taken away from further rescues and rescues at sea”.
“The landing season – added Botte – has just begun, no one can predict its evolution, one thing we could do: oppose the vicissitudes that this government has imposed on the ships involved in rescuing migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean. How? Certainly not by denying docking at our port, it can’t be done, but if it could, why not! What can be done instead: we are at the 34th Salerno landing, waiting for the ships at the port, as it should be, they are there. all institutional levels are always present, and will always be there, perhaps it is the case that these considerations are raised in their declarations, which have to do with the sensitivity and humanity that migrants rescued at sea and the crews need of the ships that bring them to safety. We express our solidarity with those who save human lives and we strongly condemn those who hinder all this with inhuman policies”, concludes the exponent of the Antiracist Forum of Salerno.
