ROME (approved) .- A government minister Matteo Renzi recently used a phrase impact to complain to the European Union (EU) by immigration and security policies jumbled that European countries have launched to date . “Terrorism is fast and Europe is slow,” said Angelino Alfano, head of the Ministry of Interior of the Italian executive, in an appearance in the capital of Belgium.
Since the beginning of the wave of terrorist attacks in Europe last year, Renzi has launched in Italy a heterodox cocktail of measures to tackle the great migration crisis experienced by the Old Continent, basically rescue activities and temporary reception of migrants arriving by sea, accompanied by an increasing number of arrests, and in some cases expulsions of subjects suspected of terrorist activities.
“refugees are not terrorists, but people fleeing from terrorism (…) Europe must not forget human values which was founded, “said Renzi, a few days after the attacks in Paris in November 2015, urging Europeans to not be swayed by fear. The Italian president defended his reference to the concept of pietas Roman, which means being moved by the alien and moved to act before suffering pain, something position in the turbulent times in which he lives Europe must amalgamate measures for greater control of the territory, he said.
Renzi has thus tried to reassure the Italian left and humanitarian organizations, concerned about the ordeal suffered by migrants, while it has also sent a reassuring message right, and in particular the New right Center, the party of Alfano with which the Italian prime minister remains in power.
Acts of deterrence
An example of the double migration policy enactment by the Italian government is developing the “Aware migrants’, intended to warn migrants about the risks of life that run if they decide to take the deadly sea route to Italy, rising hands of human traffickers. The initiative presented last July 28, in collaboration with the World Organization for Migration (IOM), which cost 1.5 million euros, set the objective influence potential migrants aged between 18 and 35 years, but also to all such as families and communities of origin, which have a role in making the decision to travel to Europe. Discouraging them to do so, of course.
Hence, as organizers said, the campaign was intended to be transmitted through the web, radio and television in more than 15 African countries, in English, French and Arabic.
“Our experience teaches us that many are unaware of the dangers they are exposed. So we feel the moral duty to launch this campaign, “he said about the prefect Mario Morcone, head of Migration Italian Ministry of Interior. “It’s like a bottle with a message that we’re throwing” added Alfano. “Some will say that is not enough, but is added to everything else we’re doing,” he concluded
the minister.The politician spoke well to rescue operations at sea that various military units and Italian police carried forward for years in the Mediterranean sea and that, so far this 2016, they have allowed Italy rescued alive 94 thousand 449 people, while two thousand 606 died in the attempt, most drowned in the Sicilian channel, according to updated figures by the end of July the UN agency for refugees (UNHCR).
This on a total number of 257 000 186 migrants arrived crossing the Mediterranean and three thousand 120 dead in the same period, basically, people traveling to Italy and Greece, and in the case of Italy were also identified through the work of other organizations working in rescue operations, mainly the NGO Doctors Without Borders, SOS-Méditerranée and the Maltese Moas (Migrants Offshore Aid Station), and Frontex, the agency control the borders of the EU.
in addition, the government Renzi has conducted unique initiatives in Europe, the creation of a department to identify the bodies of the deceased and a mission to rescue some ships that have sunk at sea in recent years, taking dozens of bodies and belongings.
Moreover, the Italian Government has also supported the project of so-called humanitarian corridors, promoted by the Vatican-specifically, the Sant’Egidio association, body parallel diplomacy of the Holy See to bring to Italy legally applicants seekers and refugees who are in situations of particular vulnerability.
108 expulsions
in times of severe attacks in Europe, Renzi also sent signals to avoid Italians, particularly the most conservative, perceive their position as lax to the challenges of mass immigration. It intensified the deployment of forces in the streets and increased research activities and surveillance of individuals considered suspected human traffickers or people linked to Islamic terrorism, on which police reported almost daily to the public through notes public.
to do this, all the tools already used against indigenous terrorism that operated in the past century Italy were reactivated -the Red Brigades and ultraderecha- extremists, in an updated and more online version with technology available today to criminal tools.
“last year (2015) we arrested several who lived for some time in Italy, Pakistanis, Albanians, Albanians, Moroccans, Tunisians and some Italian” , recently explained in an interview with this reporter, Lamberto Giannini, the Italian agent who heads the counterterrorism Bureau of Italy, which from 2013 coordinates all counter-terrorism units of the Italian police.
“These arrests were made under the new anti-terrorism legislation (adopted in May 2015), which criminalises the apology for terrorism, also via the Internet. We have also arrested recruiters, recruited and organized trips, “he continued.
Similarly, Italy has also strengthened its department of cybernetics research and pays more attention but not enough, according to some analysts- to radicalization in prisons, a very common and nefarious phenomenon throughout Europe. Another activity has been directed instead against human traffickers, who profit from migrants, organizing them travel to cross the Mediterranean in exchange for thousands of euros.
It is in this context, according to information provided by Alfano on 28 July at a public meeting of the Italian Parliament, Italy said it has arrested and expatriated 108 people since January 2015, of which eight were magnets (Muslim religious leaders).
These are people who, as some that are being investigated, have a similar profile: young men are born outside Italy, unlike what happens with other countries such as Germany and France, where the presence of suspected terrorists between the second or third-generation immigrants is more significantly, several of whom have denied involvement in such criminal activities.
Errors and criticism
Errors and criticism have not lacked Renzi.
in last May, the Italian police captured and obtained the extradition to Italy of an Eritrean who was in Sudan -in a coordinated operation with the British police, through Interpol, accused of being “the General,” one of the most powerful and ruthless traffickers sub-Saharan route to Italy, something he had never done any European country. However, in post-arrest hours, began to circulate doubts about the identity of the person arrested, a version that also fed the Eritrean himself, who repeatedly denied being the wanted criminal in Italy.
Even so, far from supporting this hypothesis, the tax court case managers presented in July a record, with 17 evidence, according to which the only mistake of the Italian researchers have been transcribing his name wrong and spread by mistake a photograph corresponding to someone else.
Moreover, prosecutors reported that the evidence against Medhanie Yehdego Mered, the Eritrean arrested, there are also videos showing scenes of cannibalism and murder of migrants who, after putting in the hands of these networks, they ran out of enough money to continue their journey and thus paid with their lives. A circumstance, however, has not dispelled all doubts, in view of the next hearing on the case, scheduled for next September.
In addition, Italy has also been criticized for not having appropriate policies integration for enough courses languages- such as migrants, once they are putting down roots in Italy. Even, according to a recent alert Europol, the European police lost track of about 10,000 children, half in Italy, and some of whom escaped from the shelters where they were.
this is the case of Salam center of Taranto, Sicily, whose operator, Simona Fernandez, admitted that 850 less than the Italian rescue workers sent their shelter between 2014 and 2015, 407 escaped and disappeared.
“we were trying not to, but our homes are not prisons. The horror is that many families are committed to the mafias for minors work for them. Is the price to pay to get to Europe, “said Fernández to this reporter.
In this difficult context, since taking power two years ago, Renzi has defended denouncing the lack of solidarity from several countries EU – especially Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are reluctant to accept refugees in their territory, something to which the EU responded in 2015 reaching a commitment to spread in two years between European countries 160 000 applicants seekers who are currently in Italy and Greece, the other country on the front line at the reception (forced) migrants.
However, this plan is not yielding the expected results. According to the latest information updated to July 13, 2016 European Commission, only 843 of the 34 000 953 living in Italy and whose relocation is planned for this 2015 (Greece: two thousand 213 of the 63 000 302 expected) and have been relocated, which indicates that the European response has been extremely slow and ultimately ineffective.
Furthermore it adds to the ill-fated pact last March for the deportation of hundreds of migrants from Greece to Turkey, which has suffered a recent attempted coup.
that is also why, for this difficulty to be enforced in the EU and its heterodox immigration policy, there are also some who believe that the strategy Renzi is a “no strategy”.
“What is Italy’s immigration policy? It is a question that analysts, historians and professors are made “recently wrote a reader of the newspaper Il Sussidiario, echoing a common sentiment among the detractors of Renzi, ie, that its policies are neither ideologically left nor right.
the ace in the hole
However, a skilful player in the world of politics is, and taking advantage of the renewed role of Italy in the EU after Brexit, Renzi has now released a new ace up his sleeve. And this is the proposal called “Migration compact 2.0″, a project of 500 million initial euro budget for the whole EU “a similar pact commits the already signed between the EU and Turkey, between the European Union and some African countries from which most migrants “, as reported by Paolo Gentiloni, Italian Foreign Minister.
in this line, Renzi added a different element relative to the more myopic Turkish-European pact already in force (and whose fate is on tenterhooks, not only for the internments criticism, but also for the attempted coup in that country), ie, that the program should be organized so that programs funded in the countries of origin and transit of immigrants, with the aim of offering job opportunities in their countries to avoid traveling to Europe.
a plan, ultimately aimed at some of the big ‘producers migrants’-Libya , Nigeria, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Senegal on which the EU will now discuss
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