Roberto Castelli leaves Myrta Merlino speechless. During the La7 lecture “L’Aria che Tira”, on Monday, March 6, the presenter and her guests analyzed the tragedy of Steccato di Cutro (70 migrants killed), the words of the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi ( “These people they don’t need to leave, I was brought up to be responsible and ask myself what I can do for my country and not vice versa”) and the investigation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rome to find out what happened.
Merlino departed from the League’s request to return to the 2018 safety decrees and observed: “The Coast Guard had understood that precisely those decrees complicated the work of those who have to save lives at sea”, but the former Minister of Justice Castelli, in connection, denied it by surprisingly extracting two graphs, one from the ISPI and the other from the UN: “When Salvini arrives, the landings collapse and, consequently, even the dead at sea reach a minimum”.
Silence fell in the studio. Myrta Merlino replied perplexed that, again by the graphs, with the Meloni government the arrivals of migrants tripled, the president of Autonomia e Liberdade ignored her: “Well, Salvini is the minister who has caused the fewest deaths at sea in the history of the Republic in the last 10 years .The data I read to you are official”.
According to the Northern Castelli League, it is important that the magistrates clarify the massacre of February 26 last: “All the political parties are exploiting the drama, but the rescue services did not start because the sea was not force 5, but 2. We we must ask ourselves why the boat did not stop in Greece”.
The deputy of the Democratic Party, Gennario Migliore, revealed intolerance: “She is saying many wrong things”, “I did not interrupt her, although she was out of touch with reality” Castelli retorted, while Merlino underlined: “I also wondered how is that they didn’t land in Greece, but they are smugglers, not sailors, they want to escape from the police”.
Source: IL Tempo
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