Minister Minniti, across the board, comments on the serious episode of Bardonecchia and the reality of terrorist migrants in “Il Giornale”, which has now become a proven evidence of the facts and arrests made in Italy last week.
If you had asked me a year ago if it is possible that foreign fighters could mix with the flow of migrants, I would have answered no, because a year ago these groups would have been noble assets of Isis and you do not send a mobile asset to Europe with the risks of migratory flows. Since escape has become individual, it is reasonable to think that the best way is that of an already open route, that of human traffickers.
Interior Minister Marco Minniti explains that foreign fighters could also arrive on boats. "This is why it is important to have created a method for governing migratory flows".
“The government that will come takes this into account”. “The list of foreign fighters is continuously updated. There is talk of relatively small numbers compared to other European countries, around 120 subjects, of which a part presumably dead ”, explains Minniti, speaking of a risk that“ was and will remain high ”. “Those who are still in Italy are monitored. Among them there are some radicalized Italians. However, those who carried out the attacks in Europe did not come from Syria and Iraq, they were the children of a lack of integration ”. On the flow of migrants, “in 16 months we have created a method, starting with the return of four patrol boats to Libya”, which “have carried out more than 25 search and rescue operations. At the moment in Libya, thanks to our initiative, IOM and UNHCR are operating ”, highlights Minniti. Those who have the right to international protection are no longer led by smugglers, but by government organizations in agreement with the CEI, he explains. "A center will soon open in Tripoli to do this and run directly by UNHCR with the Libyan government". Those who do not have the right are repatriated by IOM "with assisted voluntary repatriation, or rather with a budget to rebuild a life". In the interview, Minniti comments on the Bardonecchia episode: “The French ambassador to Rome was called in a timely manner and the note from the Farnesina, on which, as is evident, we worked together, represents the position of the entire government. In summary, there was an adequate response from Italy to a serious event.