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Rome / Tripoli (dpa) – Hundreds of boat people Italy stubbornly refused to land in Sicily after days of blockade in the Mediterranean.
It is only when Germany and other EU countries pledged to take care of 50 of the 447 survivors that the Italian Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini , agreed to take this step. There was a strong criticism of the procedure. Meanwhile, 6 children and 2 adults died in Libya in a refrigerated truck, where they were written with nearly 100 other migrants.
The wooden boat, in which the 447 migrants had traveled from Libya to Italy since Wednesday, had been discovered on Friday. The Italian government did not want to give up because the country insists that other EU countries are involved in hosting refugees. On Saturday, the migrants were taken on two military ships, where they persevered until Salvini put an end to the blockade of the pledges of aid from Germany, France, Malta, Italy, Italy and Italy. Spain and Portugal on Monday night. According to government circles, Ireland now wants to accept 20 people. According to the media, a commitment from Belgium was expected.
"Italian Interior Minister Salvini blackmailed Europe on the backs of the refugees and exploited them for his cruel policies", criticized the leader of the Green Party in the Bundestag, Anton Hofreiter, in a statement. It is understandable that Italy or even Malta has called for solidarity in the reception of asylum seekers. The action of the Italian Minister of the Interior, however, violates the fundamental values of Europe.
The International Organization for Migration also criticized. Many migrants have been seriously injured, said IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo, the German news agency. They were imprisoned in unofficial camps in Libya, many were malnourished and suffered from scabies. That they had to wait so long on the Mediterranean "did not make it better".
Prior to Saturday's rescue, dramatic scenes had occurred on board the ship, according to survivors, according to IOM staff. Four boat people were drowned when about thirty migrants jumped into the water because they had promised to escape from the water. ship sighted off. Already there was no food and drink on board the fishing boat.
The government of Rome celebrated as a success the fact that migrants should now be distributed among several EU member states. "I would say that we have awakened Europe with sustainable actions and proposals," Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi told the newspaper "Libero" (Monday).
The EU Commission has shown cautious prudence, qualifying the action of Italy as unsustainable. "Italy has long called for regional cooperation on landing (migrants)," a spokesman said Monday in Brussels. But ad hoc and younger solutions would not work in the long run. He now needs a new push to come up with real European solutions, he said.
In recent weeks, the Italian government has repeatedly blocked the five-star populist movement and Lega right with ships rescued at sea. Aid agencies have been denied access to Italian ports .
The Interior Minister, Salvini, instead demanded that the EU return all rescued migrants in the Mediterranean to Libya. The burden distribution among EU states is a "significant step forward". The solution, however, was to prevent migrants from leaving Libya, he said during a visit to Moscow. "The goal is to save (the migrants), help them, heal them, feed them and bring all those people home."
Chaos has raged in Libya since the fall of long-term leader Muammar Gaddafi. Countless armed militias are fighting for power. The civil war country of North Africa has established extensive networks for trafficking in human beings.
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