He founder of the NGO Open ArmsOscar Camps is convinced that Italian government’s immigration policy “makes no sense” and warned that “ships will arrive again on its shores.” “Migratory flows vary from year to year, today they leave Senegal-Mauritania and tomorrow, when the Libyan militias spend the money, they will leave from there and when they consider that the money they receive from Meloni is not enough, they will let the migrants the ships will leave again until they renegotiate the conditions,” Camps commented in an interview with TVE.
The founder of the NGO was thus referring to the statements made by the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, after his meeting with the Italian prime minister, in which he praised the “good results” of his immigration policy. Camps explained how the Italian authorities assign remote ports to rescue ships for the disembarkation of migrants, which means “losing days of navigation, investing many resources to be able to take care of all these rescued people.” and the ships are not prepared for that“These are not passenger ships.”
“The fuel consumption, the loss of days in the danger zone, where boats capsize, prevent you from being able to stay there much longer and take you away from the path and if you decide to save more you risk fines of 10,000 euros and 30 or 60 day blockagesas is the case with Open Arms, which has already been blocked three times,” Camps explained. According to him, all this “aims to economically exhaust the NGOs, to distance them from the hot spot, from the focus, where inaction “a deliberate action on the part of the European Union and Italy is evident.”
He also criticised agreements such as the one between Italy and Albania on the transfer of migrants. “Countries with questionable democratic solvency are financed to apply force completely illegal detention campswhere human rights are violated, where people are raped, tortured, enslaved.”
Regarding the trial held in Italy against the vice-president of the government Matteo Salvini for having prevented the disembarkation of an Open Arms ship with 147 migrants on board and for which he faces a request for six years in prison, Camps recalled that the political leader intended that “the Penal Code would only apply to others” with a political decision. “not supported by the rest of his government”“It seems that on October 18 we will have a sentence, we will see what the judge says,” he said.
The founder of the NGO also mentioned the latest CIS survey which reveals that immigration is the main concern of the Spanish.We have lived through three months of confrontations, hoaxes, disinformation and populism on migration. when that’s really not the issue and ultimately it seems like they’re going to try to make us love the oppressor and hate the oppressed,” he argued.
