By Nicola de Felice , Rear Admiral (retired)
Ten NGO ships that are already at sea or about to weigh their anchor are heading for Libyan waters and are calling on the traffickers who, after extorting large amounts of money from the migrants, are busily getting their human goods send off on dilapidated rubber dinghies, regardless of the increasing number of deaths at sea.
As an old seaman, I naturally had to think of the scenes in the film “Inferno dal mari”, which was broadcast a few months ago on RAI Storia and which focused on the tactics of the “wolf pack”, the calling card of the German admiral Karl Dönitz, the driving force Power in building Hitler’s submarine weapon. His tactic: to send squadrons of submarines against convoys of ships on their way to Great Britain, to cut the sea routes and thereby economically strangle the enemy.
Now the scenario has changed, the Germans are different and so is the island. The booty is now the island of Sicily, left to its fate by Europe to serve as a “landing stage” for the landing of illegal immigrants. The NGO ships are present in the Mediterranean like a pack of wolves: The German Sea Eye 4, which is financed by the Evangelical Church and operated by the successor party to the Communist Party of the GDR – Die Linke – has just landed 414 illegal immigrants in Pozzallo. She finds good company in the Spanish Open Arms. The other German Sea Watch 3 – which previously took it upon itself to ram patrol boats of the Guardia di Finanza – sails “in anticipation of their prey” in the Sicilian Channel and waits to that the Spanish Alta Mari fills up first. The latter will be careful not to turn up in their home country, because Prime Minister and left-wing leader Pedro Sánchez has recently deployed the army to push back illegal immigrants in Ceuta and fined those who dare to join illegal immigrants in Ceuta and fined 900,000 euros invade Spanish waters. And what about the Norwegian ships? The Geo Barents, well equipped to return to Norway with a load of illegals (if they want to), is already in the Strait of Gibraltar to join the Ocean Viking, also sailing under the Norwegian flag, who are warming up their engines in Syracusa leaves. Prime Minister and leftist Pedro Sánchez recently deployed the army to push back illegal immigrants in Ceuta and imposed a fine of 900,000 euros on those who dare to enter Spanish waters with illegal migrants. And what about the Norwegian ships? The Geo Barents, well equipped to return to Norway with a load of illegals (if they want to), is already in the Strait of Gibraltar to join the Ocean Viking, also sailing under the Norwegian flag, who are warming up their engines in Syracusa leaves. Prime Minister and leftist Pedro Sánchez recently deployed the army to push back illegal immigrants in Ceuta and imposed a fine of 900,000 euros on those who dare to enter Spanish waters with illegal migrants. And what about the Norwegian ships? The Geo Barents, well equipped to return to Norway with a load of illegals (if they want to), is already in the Strait of Gibraltar to join the Ocean Viking, also sailing under the Norwegian flag, who are warming up their engines in Syracusa leaves. 000 euros imposed on those who dare to enter Spanish waters with illegal migrants. And what about the Norwegian ships? The Geo Barents, well equipped to return to Norway with a load of illegals (if they want to), is already in the Strait of Gibraltar to join the Ocean Viking, also sailing under the Norwegian flag, who are warming up their engines in Syracusa leaves. 000 euros imposed on those who dare to enter Spanish waters with illegal migrants. And what about the Norwegian ships? The Geo Barents, well equipped to return to Norway with a load of illegals (if they want to), is already in the Strait of Gibraltar to join the Ocean Viking, also sailing under the Norwegian flag, who are warming up their engines in Syracusa leaves.
The Sea Watch 4 is in Trapani, while the other two German ships Alan Kurdi and Louise Michel (financed by the multimillionaire and street artist Banksy, who was chased from St. Mark’s Square by the police) are still in Borriana, the Spanish port of the “Pirates of the 21st Century. Century “, lie at anchor. And then there is the Italian ship Mare Ionio in Venice, where its former head of mission Casarini and 7 other people are being investigated for reloading migrants in exchange for large payments of money. Sicily is now waiting lazily for its “Inferno dal mari”, which will spread this summer on the coasts, on the streets, in the cities, where swarms of non-EU migrants – some of them Covid-positive – still aimlessly roam the country
Dramatic events that can be avoided with government measures that must be taken decisively and immediately to pin down those responsible for this tragedy, namely the flag states that are legally involved in the NGO operations. I insist that the EU’s Dublin Regulation, which requires the Member States to receive migrants on their first illegal crossing, is to be applied to the decks of the ships that sail under the flag of these states, and thus to the territory of their respective countries Represent flag states. Otherwise, we must expect a summer of controversy, resignations and deaths at sea.
Source: IL TEMPO (May 25th print)
