“The present dies and also the future”

Fiorita: “The last, the most unfortunate, die, because Europe does not intend to take charge of the migratory phenomenon”

ROME – “Still dead and missing in the Ionian Sea. Women, men, children. The present dies and the future also dies. Once again, in ‘our’ sea, hope becomes tragedy. For us from Catanzaro who looked him in the eye two years ago on a journey of hope, fortunately without having to count deaths, the first duty is that of the most sincere condolences for today’s victims and full solidarity with the survivors. But it would be a incomplete duty if it were not accompanied by the duty of truth. It is not a cynical and cheating destiny, that makes our seas a cemetery.”

Thus the mayor of Catanzaro, Nicola Fiorita, who adds: “corpses are not the side effect of something inevitable. The last, the most unfortunate, die, because Europe does not intend to take charge of the migratory phenomenon. Lack of vision, selfishness, small political shop interests, cynicism, are the ingredients of a deadly mixture that we and no others have prepared.” “A Coast Guard forced to intervene in an emergency rather than being able to intervene in time as part of a planned rescue service is unacceptable. We should ask ourselves about this – concludes the mayor of Catanzaro. Because the condolences and pain are here and now but can no longer be preventively valid for tomorrow as well.”