Let the minors who are on board the Sea Watch disembark. To ask is the Public Prosecutor of Catania. But also this time the government holds the point. For the ministers Toninelli, Di Maio and Salvini, Holland must take care of the 47 migrants on board, but they are pulling out. "As long as there are no European agreements on structural solutions for migrants aboard boats, the Netherlands - said Dutch Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Mark Harbers, according to the newspaper De elegraaf - will not take part in solutions. ad hoc". Holland - he added - has "taken note of the Italian request, but is not responsible for the Sea-Watch 3". This was reported by the Italian press agency "AdnKronos".
With a letter sent to the Ministers of the Interior and of Infrastructure and Transport, respectively Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and Danilo Toninelli, the prosecutor for minors of Catania, Caterina Ajello, affirms that leaving unaccompanied foreign minors on the NGO ship, in bay off the coast of Syracuse, is a "grave violation of their rights". While the Catania Public Prosecutor's Office has opened a file, currently against unknown persons, to ascertain how many unaccompanied minors are on board the Sea Watch.
Salvini, however, is not there: “Dutch flag, German NGO. The ports of Rotterdam or Hamburg open, there is no place in Italy "says the deputy premier, echoed by the other vice premier, Luigi Di Maio:" Holland welcome the 47 migrants on board, in the name of Europe ! " writes on Fb. “The Dutch government has responded to my request for Sea Watch 3 passengers to go to Holland, saying it is not up to them. Yet that NGO ship flies the Dutch flag - continues Di Maio - This however means that the responsibility on the ship lies with the Netherlands and that the crew is subject to its sovereignty. If he can stay at sea and can challenge Italy every day, it is thanks to the flag that the Dutch government gave him ”. Then he adds: "Either he takes responsibility or withdraws the flag so the NGO will stop disobeying the orders of the Libyan coast guard." “Unless - the pentastellato political leader warns - as happened with the Lifeline, the Sea Watch 3 is not illegally waving that flag. In this case we will have to proceed with the seizure. But in the meantime, Holland welcome the 47 migrants on board, in the name of Europe! ”.
In the meantime, according to sources of the Viminale, the Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is gathering the elements to evaluate a complaint for all members of the Sea Watch crew 3 for aiding and abetting illegal immigration. The response of the Syracuse child guarantee: “Perhaps the Minister of the Interior is ignorant of the law - says Trommino to Adnkronos -. If there is only one doubt, the boy must be considered a minor until proven otherwise. This is not a trick. The Interior Ministry cannot assess whether to disembark minors, but they just have to apply the law ”.
THEHolland for its part explained, in a statement sent to Adnkronos, its no declaring herself willing "to show solidarity" only if a "structural solution" is reached that allows "after disembarkation" to "refuse and send back immediately after arriving at the external European border" migrants who "do not have the right to international protection ". Thus the Dutch government explains its "no" to "the Italian request to take care of the migrants" who are on board the Sea Watch, which flies the Dutch flag. "The Netherlands are in favor of a structural solution through which, immediately following the disembarkation, a distinction is made between those who are entitled to international protection and those who are not - the statement continues - Only in the event that such a structural solution is effectively applied, the Netherlands are willing to show solidarity and contribute to the landing and, for those entitled to protection, to relocation ”. The declaration then reiterates that the Hague government does not believe it has responsibility towards Sea Watch: "The Netherlands, as a flag state, is not obliged" to take part in what are called "ad hoc measures with regarding the landing ”in which the Hague refuses to participate in the absence of“ a concrete perspective ”of the desired structural solution. "It is the task of the captain of Sea Watch 3 to find a safe harbor nearby to disembark the 47 migrants he took on board".