Rome – The emergency immigrants continues unabated and turns more and more political debate. The governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia , wrote to the prefects of its region, inviting them to send away immediately all refugees currently located in all the tourist resorts of the Veneto region and to prevent new allocations. The Governor is the mouthpiece of the alarms, the fears and appeals addressed to him by mayors, citizens and entrepreneurs in the tourism Veneto, they see threatened the success of the summer season from sending refugees, already it happened in various locations. “Doing my dismay than me in every way and everywhere expressed their concern that such a jumble of voices and actions can lead to a devastating effect on the current tourist season, and especially a boomerang on reservations because of advertising negative international media are ready to revive large-scale benefiting neighboring countries – writes Zaia – are asking with this to provide the evacuation with the highest priority of all the facilities and accommodation already occupied by immigrants in tourist and desist from making new allocations “. The governor points out that the Veneto is the first Tourist Regions of Italy and the sixth in Europe, with 63 million admissions (15% of the national volume), with 17 billion in annual revenue including the armature, with 420,000 employed in the sector.
The situation “worrying” about the “number of passengers without documents, often refugees and asylum seekers, who are detained in the airport premises for short or long periods, sometimes without adequate human and spiritual assistance” has talked Pope Francis , addressing the airport chaplains who participate in a meeting organized by the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants. “Sometimes – said Bergoglio – tragic situations can occur, due, for example, accidents, or hijacking, with serious consequences for the safety and the psychological state of the people.” “Even in these circumstances – he recommended – the chaplain is called and sought after by those who need comfort and encouragement.” He added that “it is important to work meekly and get more attuned to the Holy Spirit who creates unity in diversity”, and this has encouraged the chaplains airport “to work to ensure that these special places that border are airports, there is space to find and practice love and dialogue, which feed the brotherhood between people and preserve a peaceful social climate. “
Legality does not mean closing: the president of the CEI, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco , spoke again about the problem and says: “Security and legality are a definite must for a democratic state and civil, but this duty can not be closed and not welcoming to those who are desperate,” he said.
Even the premier Matteo Renzi , indirectly, responds to those who would close their doors to migrants. Speaking at the VII Forum Italy-Latin America and the Caribbean at the Palazzo Lombardia, he stressed that “identity, tradition and roots are not obstacle to globalization. Today many barking at the moon, living on the fears and think that the solution is to lock himself in the house, but it is not so, “continued the Prime Minister stressing that instead” the global exciting prospects. ” In another passage of his speech, the Prime Minister also added “I wish we were to give the name with the future that is not anger and fear, but courage and hope.”
The immigration emergency “must be addressed now, not in four months, “notes European Commission reaffirming its determination to carry forward the agenda on immigration as a whole, in particular with regard to the redistribution of 40,000 migrants arrived in Italy and Greece from 15 April. As said spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud, “the proposal was developed precisely to deal with an emergency situation” and therefore the Commission is not prepared to back down on any point, even on the principle of mandatory contested by ten countries.
Emergency stations. Still live in Rome, at Tiburtina station where, a day after the police had intervened to identify and evict migrants from days parked in the street, even today he repeated the same thing. In Milan for days 250 migrants every night they sleep in the trash and there is concern about the alarm scabies while in Ventimiglia forty immigrants have spent all night lying in front of the Italian-French border at Ponte San Ludovico, after being blocked by the Police Nationale, which has deployed a cordon of “Crs” intervened with three buses to prevent access to foreigners. The immigrants, mostly from the Horn of Africa, mostly Eritreans, were assisted by the Red Cross, which has distributed them water. Also present were the mayor of the border town Enrico Ioculano and Italian police. Foreigners have spent the whole night on the asphalt, while the Italian authorities and the French are trying to find a solution. They are, however, declined to about sixty immigrants stopped at the train station, which last night had exceeded the threshold of fifty. All are united by one goal: to cross the border with France to be reunited with their relatives in Northern Europe.
Clash increasingly heated. The tone of the political reactions are becoming taller. The last clash was consumed in the studios of Sky between the leader of the Northern League, Matteo Salvini, and the governor of Tuscany, Enrico Rossi: “Racist ethnic will you and all his family up to the fourth degree. I want to take the train quietly without taking scabies and not those with the machete, “said Salvini President of Tuscany that had defined ‘ethnic racist’. The government assures the foreign minister, Paolo Gentiloni , is working to address the situation which, according to the head of the Foreign Ministry, already is normalizing. “You have to fight in Europe,” he added, alluding Gentiloni EU immigration agenda, “to get results.”
But the Northern League continues to raise the bar with the opposition governors of the center North (Toti, Maroni, Zaia) to new arrivals in their regions, “No punishment, reward, if anything, the municipalities that did not take them, of course,” he insists the governor of Lombardy Roberto Maroni in an interview Republic on the welcome to immigrants. “Lombardy has the highest number of legal immigrants – says -, 1.3 million, 13 percent of the population. The national average is 8, we are well above average”, and “in a period of crisis, many of these foreigners have lost their jobs and thus increase social tensions “.
Against the refoulement of refugees, yesterday, lashed the Bishop of Padua, Msgr. Antonio Mattiazzo, who recalled on the occasion of the celebrations for the feast of the patron saint of the city, that Anthony was a foreigner: “The institutional authorities should have a look not partial, but inclusive of all citizens, with particular attention towards the weak and needy – he wrote in his message -. Recall that Anthony himself arrived in Italy as ‘foreign’, embarked in Africa and landed in Sicily after a shipwreck. The safety concern should not rule out the virtues and the duty of humanity and solidarity and not to forget the responsibilities and shortcomings of international cooperation. It is strange, then, that someone accuses foreigners of drug sales, but keeping silent that are Italian citizens that they buy, or who take advantage of foreign women. “
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