The NGO Open Arms heads straight towards Spain, guilty, according to them, the Italian Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini replied on his twitter profile, "maybe they have something to hide".
The NGO controversy has been going on for days. He accused Italy of being an "accomplice" of the Libyan coast guard, calling it "assassins enlisted by Italy". The reason for the heavy accusation is the image that has gone around the world, that of a woman and a child spilled on a floating table in the middle of the sea which, according to the NGO, would have been killed by the Libyan navy because they did not want to get on the Libyan patrol boats".
A German journalist aboard the Open Arms, together with Proactiva volunteers, made a report that will be broadcast on Friday. Tense tension with the Viminile in this regard because the motivation that pushed Open Arms towards Madrid it is off-road according to Italian sources. The NGO said in a statement that, "the decision stems from the consideration that the hypothesis of landing in an Italian port still presents multiple critical factors. The rough sea? But no: The first consists of the statements of the Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, who defined the documentation offered by us as 'lies and insults' through the publication of the tragic images of the sea area where the operation conducted by the Coast Guard took place. Libyan". Furthermore, "is incomprehensible because the initial availability to accommodate the woman in a state of severe hypothermia was not accompanied by the same availability for the two found corpses".Finally, the third reason that keeps it away from Sicily is "the reiterated announcement of a kind of counter-investigation or against version of the probable dynamics of the events that occurred Monday evening" a circumstance that according to the NGO would jeopardize"the protection of the surviving woman and her complete freedom to bear witness in conditions of tranquility and security".