Italy’s Salvini Calls Blocked Migrant Vessel a ‘Pirate Ship’; Tells Berlin and Amsterdam to Take Refugees
26th June 2019
taly’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini called a NGO migrant transportation vessel a “pirate ship,” and suggested that Germany and The Netherlands should split the 43 passengers who were picked up off the coast of Libya, according to Newsweek.
“Does the European Union want to solve the Sea Watch problem? Easy,” Salvini wrote on Facebook, “Dutch ship, German NGO: Half of the immigrants in Amsterdam, the other half in Berlin. And seize the pirate ship.”
How the Libyan migrant hustle works: Libyans get in whatever barely floating thing they can find and paddle out beyond the territorial limit, where a proglodyte ‘rescue ship’ picks them up and carries the ‘refugees’ to a European port.
Italy was swamped early on, and has decided that it doesn’t want to play this game any more, which is why they are now also going to France, Spain, and Greece.