‘A declaration of war on Europe’ – Salvini says 6,000 migrants landing on Lampedusa in 1 day threatens to collapse Italian society
Social media has been awash with videos of migrants storming the shores of Italy in recent days, and Italy’s nominally conservative government is being forced to respond.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, known for his hawkish stance on immigration during his tenure as interior minister in 2018, said on Wednesday that when 120 boats filled with migrants arrive on the shores of Italy at the same time, “it is not a spontaneous phenomenon, it is a declaration of war on Europe.”
The deputy prime minister of the right-wing government in Rome, who currently heads the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, referred to the fact that the boats with approximately 6,000 migrants docked on the island of Lampedusa in one day. He stressed that the problem was not exclusive to Lampedusa and that the situation threatened to “collapse Italian society as a whole.”
🇮🇹Thousands of military aged men from Africa are invading our continent. Every. Day. This is Lampedusa, Italy.
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) September 13, 2023
Where is that “Blocco Navale” (naval blockade) that you promised us, @GiorgiaMeloni? You’ve betrayed your voter base - and the rest of Europe.pic.twitter.com/wkfqP3JBKR
Salvni said he is convinced that mass migration to Europe was being orchestrated by criminal organizations, including human trafficking organizations. He added that Europe had completely abandoned Italy to protect its land and maritime borders and that Rome should act on its own to further tighten national security and migration regulations.
Salvini first met with League ministers, state secretaries and parliamentarians behind closed doors, before holding a press conference at the headquarters of the Foreign Correspondents’ Association in Rome. He also presented the issues on the RAI evening news program.
“The united center-right that came to government almost a year ago is working well in Italy, the same united center-right that gives us hope to make a difference in Europe,” Salvini said.
Video footage of boat after boat made waves on social media, with it serving as a visceral reminder of the spiraling immigration crisis Europe is facing.
D-Day: An einem einzigen Tag landen 5.000 Männer in 112 (!) Booten in #Lampedusa an!
— Hartes Geld (@Hartes_Geld) September 13, 2023
Das entspricht der Stärke einer Brigade.
"Wir können nicht mehr", hetzt der Bürgermeister gegen die #Flüchtlinge.https://t.co/Ci4FbLKFEB #Remigration pic.twitter.com/DUQWHyG5Yu
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ran on a campaign platform of blocking migrants and setting up a “naval blockade;” however, since coming to power, she has overseen a record number of illegal migrants arriving in Italy and has even approved plans for Italy to accept over 400,000 non-EU legal migrants per year.
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