After a few particularly intense weeks due to the arrival of thousands of migrants in southern Italy, where less than two months ago a barge capsized in the Calabria region that left more than 90 dead, Salvini assured that Italy is “absolutely incapable” of managing “a thousand arrivals a day” and that “it is crucial that Europe wake up and intervene”.
“He has been chatting for years, but he has never lifted a finger, and it is time to show that there is a community, a Union, and that solidarity is not only the responsibility of Italy, Spain, Greece or Malta. Because a thousand arrivals a day we are absolutely incapable to support them economically, culturally and socially,” he said.
The promoter of the declaration has been his right hand, Matteo Piantedosi, current Minister of the Interior, after a conversation held with Musumeci as a result of the latest landings, Interior sources told EFE.
With the state of emergency it will also be possible to implement faster procedures and actions to offer migrants reception solutions in a short time and with adequate standards, they stated from the Government, since both Civil Protection and the Italian Red Cross will collaborate in assistance.
“If we intervene in the countries from which we move, neutralizing the mafia of traffickers, perhaps we can avoid the worst,” Musumeci emphasized.
The measure, which “allows for the repeal of some rules of the current system”, “will be national” because “we need to help the regions because there is a risk of sending the system to collapse if this rate of arrivals continues,” he added, although he insisted on the importance that Europe “realizes that there isn’t much time”.