Thread: Germany Tells Italy to Open Borders to African Migrants | Italian leader responds

Germany Tells Italy to Open Borders to African Migrants

Italian leader responds, saying: 'We are not the refugee camp of Europe'

By: Jay Greenberg |@NeonNettle on 5th August 2019 @ 12.00pm


© press Germany is putting pressure on Italy to open its ports to ships of migrants from Africa

Germany's interior minister has told Italian leader Matteo Salvini to open Italy's borders to ships carrying migrants from Africa that the country is refusing entry to. https://neonnettle.com/news/8356-ita...-refugee-camp-

Horst Seehofer made the call to his Italian counterpart, populist Interior Minister Salvini, after Italy recently blocked migrant ships from docking in its ports.

Seehofer is calling on Salvini to reopen the country’s ports to migrant transport vessels as NGOs continue to traffic people from the Libyan coast into Europe.

Open borders advocate Seehofer is asking Salvini why he has closed Italy’s ports when most of the migrants eventually end up docking and disembarking regardless, Il Giornale reports.

“I want to avoid the same pattern being repeated every time, with a ship with migrants waiting for eight or 14 days in front of Italy’s coasts and Salvini who does not want them to go ashore," Seehofer said in a statement."

But it always ends up docking anyway, either because migrants collapse, get sick, or there are pregnant women.”


© press Italy is blocking vessels carrying migrants from docking in its ports

Seehofer’s comments come in response to an agreement that was reached last Wednesday between the EU and Italy.

The deal allows migrants onboard Italian coastguard vessels to disembark at an Italian port so long as they would be relocated to other EU member states.

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In response to his German counterpart’s remarks, Mr. Salvini said, “We are not opening anything, the ports remain closed.

”Populist Salvini warned Seehofer; “We are not the refugee camp of Europe.”

Salvini’s defiant words echo statements he made while responding to France's President Emmanuel Macron after the French leader condemned him for not showing up to a migration conference Paris.

“Italy will not be your refugee camp," Salvini declared." https://neonnettle.com/news/8356-ita...-refugee-camp-

There is the port of Marseille so don’t come and put pressure on us. "If you expect us to sign a document where ships arrive in Italy, you are wrong. "Italians are no longer going to be anyone’s slaves."


© press Italy says the ships can only dock if the migrants have been accepted by another country first

Recently, NGOs operating migrant transport vessels in the Mediterranean have ramped up their efforts.

French NGO SOS Mediterranee’s new ship announced that it had resumed its collection and transportation of migrants into Europe. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-after-eu-deal

The German NGO Sea-Eye’s “Alan Kurdi” ship announced that it too had resumed its migrant collection and transportation service as well.

Earlier in the week, a spokesperson for Sea-Eye Gordon Isler announced that it had picked up 40 migrants while mentioning that the closest safe port was the Italian port of Lampedusa.

In a statement directed at NGOs claiming to have migrants' best interests at heart, Salvini said:

“If the NGO really cares about the health of immigrants, it can set a course for Tunisia: if instead, they think of coming to Italy as if nothing had happened, they have the wrong minister.”

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SEND THEM BACK HOME TO THEIR PRESIDENT!

THEY CANNOT GET OFF THE HOOK FOR THIS ANY MORE!

NO ONE WANTS THIS MASS INVASION OF OUR COUNTRIES AND ALL THEIR PROBLEMS.

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The German-based NGO Sea-Eye have declared that they will not contest Matteo Salvini’s closed port policy, choosing instead to change the ship’s course and head to Malta to land the migrants. Last Friday, the Alan Kurdi, one of Sea-Eye’s migrant transport boats, said that it would be changing its course from the Italian island of Lampedusa in order to make its way toward the Maltese port of Valetta instead, Il Giornale… [ 232 more words ]



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Salvini prevails as NGO ship abandons plan to dump migrants in Italy - Voice of Europe

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Salvini prevails as NGO ship abandons plan to dump migrants in Italy

By Arthur Lyons 6 August 2019

The German-based NGO Sea-Eye have declared that they will not contest Matteo Salvini’s closed port policy, choosing instead to change the ship’s course and head to Malta to land the migrants.
Last Friday, the Alan Kurdi, one of Sea-Eye’s migrant transport boats, said that it would be changing its course from the Italian island of Lampedusa in order to make its way toward the Maltese port of Valetta instead, Il Giornale reports.
Sea-Eye spokesman Gordon Isler claimed that the NGO would “not offer Matteo Salvini another opportunity for such an unworthy show. We take our responsibilities to the saved people seriously and now we go to Malta.”

Last week, Spanish migrant transport NGO Proactiva Opens Arms also announced that it had collected 123 migrants, and rather than heading to closer ports in North Africa, announced that it was setting sail toward Europe. The NGO did not specify which country they would be headed toward.
Following the announcement, Matteo Salvini, Italy’s national populist interior minister, and de-facto leader, immediately banned the ship from docking at any of Italy’s ports.
Last month saw several migrant transport NGOs resume their efforts to aid in the illegal invasion of the European continent.
Doctors Without Borders partnered with France’s SOS Méditerranée announced the beginning of a new migrant transport mission off the coast of Libya after they halted operations last December.
Their new ship, the Ocean Viking, said Friday that it would embark from the port of Marseille and head toward Libya. The Ocean Viking flies a Norwegian flag and is said to cost 14,000 euros per day to operate. As many as 300 migrants can be carried on the vessel at one time.
The organization has claimed to have successfully transported 30,000 migrants since beginning its operations in 2016.
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