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The far-right government has approved measures to drastically reduce the room for maneuver of NGOs who rescue migrants at sea, at the risk of causing further tragedies in the Mediterranean.
25,000 dead in the central Mediterranean since 2014. 1,300 victims recorded since the beginning of 2022. Despite this carnage, the government of Giorgia Meloni approved a decree on Wednesday evening in the Council of Ministers aimed at significantly limiting the activity of NGOs that rescue migrants at sea . “We will be forced to deplete relief areas in the Mediterranean with an inevitable increase in the number of dead”, immediately denounced Marco Bertotto, operational manager of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Italy.
For the far-right government that accuses humanitarian ships of being a “pull factor” (a pull factor) and to facilitate illegal immigration, the objective is to reduce the intervention capacities of NGOs. As soon as it came to power, the Meloni cabinet initially tried to prevent the disembarkation of migrants taken from the sea by NGOs. At the beginning of November, the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, had thus held back for several
