"I remember that when the security decrees were in force, not only had the landings decreased, but the dead and the missing in the Mediterranean Sea had been halved: these are not shipwrecks but organized trips, those on-board ships pay about three thousand dollars that become weapons and drugs for traffickers. We must stop the trafficking not only of human beings, which is very serious, but also of weapons and drugs linked to the former." The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, spoke yesterday on the radio show RTL, returning to the issue of migrants. The German NGO Sos Humanity has announced the use of administrative justice against the decision to release only part of the migrants on board. "In the provision in which the captain of the ship is told to leave the port of Catania with the 35 migrants on board, there is no deadline" is the reasoning of the lawyers of the NGO. The spokesmen of the German Foreign and Home Affairs Ministries, meanwhile, reiterate that rescue at sea is a "moral and legal duty and cannot be prevented".
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