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Hard blow to Sea Watch: NGO plane stopped

The national body for civil aviation (ENAC) does not have time to certify the blocking of the NGO plane Moonbird that the tearful complaints immediately arrive via Twitter on the Sea-Watch Italia page.

The vehicle, a single-engine touring aircraft model Cirrus Sr22, operates on behalf of the Swiss Humanitarian and the German Sea-Watch carrying out control and sighting of clandestine boats plying the central Mediterranean, so as to be able to coordinate the operations of the “rescue” ships subsidized by the same non-profit companies from above. From today the aircraft will no longer be able to take off, as it used to do, from the island of Lampedusa

“The Italian government has closed our eyes on the central Mediterranean”Sea-Watch spokesperson Giorgia Linardi comments in a video posted on social media. “From Friday our plane of monitoring civilian Moonbird can no longer take off from Lampedusa. The accusation is that of having reported too many times and for too long the presence of people in immediate need of help in the central Mediterranean “.

A Mediterranean, it must be remembered, overcrowded with NGO ships, very active in the transhipment operations in Italy of foreigners from Libya: in addition to the Sea-Watch 4, whose activities are supported by the now famous Louise Michel, financed by the writer Banksy, how can we forget, in fact, the tireless crossings made by the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean) and the Open Arms. If we add that the Ocean Viking (of the French Sos Mediterranée) and the Sea-Watch 3 are also stopped (at least for the moment), both under administrative detention in Porto Empedocle due to irregularities detected on board by the coast guard, it can be understood what is the real size of the so-called non-profit fleet. Another aircraft is part of the NGO “army of the sea” which is paired with Moonbird also in the name itself: it is Seabird, at the moment stopped for maintenance.

“This government, with the complicity of the European Union, wants the central Mediterranean to become a black hole, that no one is there to tell what is really happening, that is, that people come abandoned for hours, if not days, with the complicity of the European authorities who, like us, see them from the sky “Giorgia Linardi still complains.

“They are illegally brought back to Libya, or abandoned until they disappear or reach the coast of Lampedusa on their own. We asked the authorities to intervene every time we have seen people in danger, as required by the law. This is what the authorities deny us “, concludes the spokesperson for Sea-Watch Italia.

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