“I’m so happy not because we’re going down but because Salvini, the Italian Interior Minister, has fallen.” Words and music by Oscar Camps, the founder of the Spanish NGO Open Arms. He states this in a video published online on August 19, 2019 by The VanguardBarcelona newspaper. The video, visible at this linkwas cited by the lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, Matteo Salvini‘s lawyer, in her speech at the Open Arms trial in which the then Interior Minister was accused of kidnapping and refusal of official documents for having delayed the disembarkation of 147 migrants on board the NGO’s ship.
“From 15 to 20 August Open Arms had many solutions and not just those that were talked about. There is something more, an opening, a possibility created by the Coast Guard, which I would define as ‘human rights’. It was enough to declare not to adapt to living together on board – accuse, insomnia or stress, in short – and you were disembarked. What happens after August 18th: Open Arms receives orders from the Spanish authorities to head to Spain but refuses”, Bongiorno said at the beginning. The ship of the Spanish NGO, adds the lawyer, refuses a first Spanish port “because it is too distant”, it is offered “a patrol boat escort but it refuses and says no to a closer port, Palma de Mallorca”. For the deputy prime minister’s lawyer “we must get away from the logic that it is all a right: a right is one thing, a claim is another thing. The right to disembark is one thing. Deciding where, how, why and when to disembark is quite another” .
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But why, Bongiorno asks, “if there were all these options, if there was this passage opened by the Coast Guard that allowed disembarkation if the migrants declared ‘I didn’t fit in’, if there were these availability, Open didn’t have them let them disembark? The answer is a video in which at the end of this story, on August 20th, we see an explosion of enthusiasm on board and those who comment say that they were not happy because they disembarked, but because ‘the Italian Minister of the Interior fell. ‘. On August 20th he is not happy because he lands, but because ‘Salvini has fallen’ and the person who says this is Oscar Camps”, the founder of the Spanish NGO. Who, today in Palermo, justified himself by saying that “it was an immediate reaction to the fact that the castaways had been held on the Open Arms ship by will of Minister Salvini. It was a demonstration of satisfaction because the affair had ended with ‘migrants’ landing place’. But the video speaks for itself.
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