The Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese released the data of migrants disembarked in Italy: 9372 since the beginning of the year of which 2372 rescued by NGOs. 80 percent of migrants used, therefore, improvised small boats that are difficult to identify during navigation and especially when docking on our shores. But how are they organized? An investigation by de The messenger.
Means Italy Immigration News, or immigrants news, there are many pages, profiles and Facebook groups where real travel agencies that follow the “do it yourself” migratory flows are hiding. Flows that occur through ghost boats - without transponders, not registered - that escape national radar. Migrants who choose this solution, more risky because it is improvised without following the minimum rules of navigation, will hardly be intercepted by the police and welcomed in Italian centers. But what is most worrying at the time of Covid-19 is the fact that these migrants, escaping Italian health checks, could be infected who unknowingly spread the virus in our communities.
The investigation carried out by the Messenger notes that on social networks it is easy to find telephone numbers, places of departure, routes, costs and, in some cases, even where to make the transfers: from 2000 to 4000 euros. The language used is Arabic and Russian according to the route to be used which could pass through Greece, Turkey, or Africa. An Italian submarine of our Navy also discovered a large fishing boat that transshipped migrants on small boats and then returned back.
Most migrants leave from Tunisia, but also include groups of Libyans, whose border is difficult to monitor at the moment.
The opinion of Admiral Nicola De Felice
In this regard we have heard the admiral of div. (res.) Nicola De Felice"Regarding the ghost landings, if the problem is to be solved, the solution must be addressed in terms of foreign policy and not sending Lamorgese around without a coordinated strategy with the Farnesina. Tunisia is primarily responsible for these departures and as such must be placed under pressure in economic, military and diplomatic terms by the Italian government. For example, by vetoing in the EU the duty-free quotas of Tunisian olive oil that we import into Europe in thousands of tons. So pressure on economic cooperation managed by the Farnesina (there are hundreds of millions of Euros) and on military cooperation and on security managed by the Defense and the Interior ".