Do we risk the institutional clash between the State and the Sicily Region on migrants?
Absolutely not. Everyone has their own skills, it’s just a matter of asserting them, replies the governor of the island Nello Musumeci.
Exactly, the competence. She signs an order to close the hot-spots, the reception centers in 24 hours, and from the Interior Ministry let it be known that it has no value because the Region has no competence. Was he wrong?
Doubt comes to those who are in bad faith or ignorant. The state has jurisdiction over migrants. The president of the Region has it in health matters. And in times of epidemic it is clear that I am dealing with this.
But she closes the hot spots that belong to the state …
If there is a container that, according to the health authorities, does not have the requirements to host people in time of coronavirus, I have a duty to intervene, otherwise I make an omission.
Are you accusing the Interior Ministry of omissions?
This measure of mine comes only now, because we have been waiting for months for the national government to give itself a strategy. But we understood that the response from Rome made up of silences and omissions. And I had to adopt the ordinance that protects the right to health of those in Sicily and of the migrants themselves.
But where should they be transferred?
This really matters to the state.
However, they accuse her of exceeding competencies that are not her own.
I don’t push a damn thing. I cannot witness the concentration of hundreds and hundreds of human beings in squalid premises belonging to the state, in a totally unreasonable promiscuit. Thus outbreaks are created. I have visited the hot spots. For this I close them.
Including that of Pozzallo where, however, the mayor Roberto Ammatuna attacks her because she closes without saying how and where to transfer the migrants.
Too bad for him that the mayor of Trapani, the same party, the Democratic Party, does not think so. It is a pity that the grillina mayor of Augusta doesn’t think so. That parliamentarians from different fronts have expressed appreciation.
Claudio Fava accuses her of disorganized checks in ports and airports, of infections generated by promiscuit on public transport.
Fava often has the imprudence of dealing with things he does not know. The means of transport are of national competence. Such as the health surveillance of ports, airports and stations, devolved to the Usmaf, the maritime, air and border health offices, structures dependent on the Ministry of Health.
The real compliments come from Salvini who defines her as a free man …
I read appreciations from Forza Italia and FdI. And I get hundreds of bipartisan messages from citizens.
The Pope renews the invitation to welcome and says that the Lord will ask us to account for all the fallen migrants, victims of the throwaway culture. Do you feel these words as a rebuke?
No. the best defense of my thesis. As the universal Church, it is right that solidarity and acceptance are also universal. Not just a matter of Sicilian competence.
Certainly do not like doing good?
That’s enough. Sicilians risk appearing racist. But they never were. We are not. If anything, they protest against an immobile government.
Immobile?
It is not right to amass migrants. It is not fair to see them flee to the countryside without knowing anything more. Nor that the Italian government intervenes in Tunisia in August. And not in February. When he had a duty to do it. To block what they improperly call “invasion”. But what the rush of thousands of desperate people in a land like Sicily where desperation has marked the genetic code of its inhabitants.
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