‘Indifference is killing people’: Italy calls for help while marking migrant remembrance day

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‘Indifference is killing people’: Italy calls for help while marking migrant remembrance day

 

 

LAMPEDUSA: -- Italians on Lampedusa have marked the first official remembrance day for migrants, three years after a shipwreck half a mile from shore claimed the lives of more than 360 people seeking safety in Europe. Reports suggest 368 died, although a total of 386 people are said to be missing following the disaster.

 

More than 500 people were aboard the overcrowded wooden boat when it caught fire and capsized within sight of the Italian island, which lies halfway between Libya and Sicily. The incident sparked the creation of search and rescue missions such as Mare Nostrum and a later collaboration between Italy and the European Union.

 

‘Indifference is killing people’

 

Dr Francesco Rocca, the President of the Italian Red Cross, said the organisation’s volunteers were on the island on October 3, 2013, “supporting the survivors who were haunted by the horror they had witnessed.”

 

“Three years later and people continue to die in their thousands – nothing has changed. Indifference is killing people.”

 

Italy’s Interior Minister Angelino Alfano called on Europe to wake up and prove its juridical and political worth.

 

“Today we do not just remember the mourning for the 368 people who died three years ago, but we say as well that this is a call, maybe the last one for Europe, if it wants to be the great juridical and political continent it longs to be and has always been,” he said from Lampedusa.

 

“This call means: dear Europe wake up, because when you make commitments [to relocate migrants] to a great country like Italy and then you do not honour them, the consequence is unreliability. And that is not a good sign going forward. We honoured all our commitments.”

 

According to the International Organisation for Migration, some 132,000 migrants have arrived in Italy since January, 2016. In the same time period, 3,054 have died making the journey.

 

On Monday (October 3) alone, 5,650 people were rescued trying to reach Europe by sea, Italy’s Coast Guard reported. At least nine people died, a spokeswoman confirmed, and a pregnant woman was flown by helicopter to a hospital on Lampedusa.

 

The UN Refugee Agency puts the number of displaced worldwide at over 65 million, or one in every 113 people on earth.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-10-04

[halloween]

Right, it's got nothing to do with their decision to cross the Med on a rubber tube or equivalent.

[Bullie]

I don't really care, to be honest. There are 385 million hungry children in the world.

I am my brother's keeper, but not the world's. If people decide to go on a dangerous journey, it's their lookout what happens, not the European people.

I do, however, agree with the statement that Italy should not shoulder the brunt of this invasion alone. So let Europe help to send them back to Marocco, Tunesia, and all other safe countries in Africa. I will happily pay a little more tax to help make this happen.

 

[SgtRock]

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Italy says 6,000 migrants saved and two drowned since Thursday

 

The flow and numbers of migrants are kept well away from the MSM

 

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According to the latest figures from the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - issued on 28 July before the latest migratory wave - 89,217 people, most from sub-Saharan Africa, have arrived in Italy by sea since the start of the year.

 

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-says-6000-migrants-saved-2-drowned-thursday-990867598

 

Although these figures are nonsense, it highlights that the migrants are mostly from sub-Saharan Africa.

 

A World without Borders ? Right, a great plan if you are a lunatic.

[Grouse]

4 hours ago, SgtRock said:

 

The flow and numbers of migrants are kept well away from the MSM

 

 

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-says-6000-migrants-saved-2-drowned-thursday-990867598

 

Although these figures are nonsense, it highlights that the migrants are mostly from sub-Saharan Africa.

 

A World without Borders ? Right, a great plan if you are a lunatic.

 

And your solution is?

 

Go on, say something constructive! I dare you. Go on. Just once.....

[Merzik]

These globalist elites like Soros and Merkel who have been funding and promoting this invasion need to be stopped. The war criminals Hollande, Obama, Clinton, Bush, Sarkozy... all need to face war crime charges for their needless wars which are also spurring this invasion. Save Italy and all of  Europe before civil war errupts on a large scale. These Africans and Muslims will never assimilate or integrate into Europe. They are bringing nothing but problems. 

[halloween]

8 hours ago, Grouse said:

 

And your solution is?

 

Go on, say something constructive! I dare you. Go on. Just once.....

Tell them it doesn't work. If you arrive safely or are rescued you will be immediately deported to the nearest african country, whether you or they like it or not. If there is no gold at the end of the rainbow, there is no rush of fools to get it.

Edited October 4, 2016 by halloween