In Italy, a recent court ruling held that it is not illegal for an Italian minister to act in the interests of the Italian people in defiance of European Union directives. A judge in the Sicilian city of Catania on May 14 ruled that rightist populist political leader Matteo Salvini should not face kidnapping charges for refusing to allow a boatload of over 100 primarily Sudanese migrants to disembark in Italy in 2019 while he served as the nation’s interior minister.
As the Associated Press reported, an ecstatic Salvini hailed the ruling: “It is a beautiful day, not only for me and my family, but for all Italians who want a controlled, regulated and positive immigration, and not thousands of arrivals that in this post-COVID summer we cannot permit.”
Storming the Beaches
Two years ago, Liberty Nation detailed how globalist elites and refugee-enabling NGOs such as Sea Watch intentionally targeted Italy with a wave of foreigners for political reasons, using international maritime laws as cover:
“The story being reported in European newspapers is that humanitarians are saving shipwrecked migrants at sea and bringing them to the nearest port as mandated by international treaties. France24 claimed that Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is obstructing the rule of law.
Shoshana Fine of the European Council on Foreign Relations said that ‘search and rescue is a question of international maritime law. We’re not speaking about migration governance here, we’re speaking about the right to life.’”
“The unreported story is that Sea-Watch has had many opportunities to deliver the ‘rescued’ migrants to other ports of entry,” The LN article continued. “Spain has offered to receive them, but the Sea-Watch ship captain declined. It was vital for her to bring the migrants to Italy, apparently to challenge the politics of the ruling populist coalition.”
This means that “in practice the NGOs are the whitewashing middlemen in a lucrative and cynical human-trafficking operation. They weaponize international maritime law to assist in what amounts to a de facto invasion.”
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
Salvini’s Sicilian court victory is especially timely, as a new wave of refugees has descended on the beleaguered boot-shaped peninsula. More than 2,000 migrants crashed the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa in one 24-hour period on May 9 “as smugglers switch away from rubber dinghies in favor of steel-hulled fishing boats that can carry hundreds of asylum seekers,” UK newspaper The Telegraph reported.
“Since Sunday morning [May 9], 2,150 migrants had arrived on the tiny island, which lies south of Sicily and has for years been a target for economic migrants and refugees crossing the sea from Libya and Tunisia,” the paper stated.
“The flow of migrants has changed, I’ve been saying it for weeks,” Lampedusa Mayor Salvatore Martello asserted. “We’re no longer seeing little boats with 15 or 20 people arriving from Tunisia but big dinghies and fishing boats, some of them with two decks, which can carry up to 300 people. They have been arriving one after the other, the biggest one had 400 people on board.”
Police officials were alarmed. “If we have another day like yesterday, with an incessant succession of disembarking, it will no longer be possible to manage public and health safety,” Domenico Pianese, secretary-general of a police union, exclaimed the following day.
Unspoken Danger
Dominant media organizations naturally tamp down the threat posed by this refugee influx to the personal health of Italians. “During that [2019 standoff], there was an outbreak of scabies and a suspected case of tuberculosis” among the refugees, German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle noted. A 2019 study published in the Journal of Infection and Public Health summarized that its findings confirmed “the high prevalence of [Hepatitis B] positivity and latent tuberculosis among immigrants.”
“Migrants, especially coming from African regions, carry higher prevalence rates of [Hepatitis B] and [Hepatitis C] than European countries,” the study determined. “Hepatitis B, and especially latent and active tuberculosis, can be a public health problem for the host nations by changing the local epidemiology,” the researchers concluded.
Two years later and the boats are bigger than ever. “Some 11,000 migrants have landed on [Lampedusa] since the start of the year,” the BBC reports. “That is up on last year's figure of 4,105 for the same period.”
The same people who faint at the sight of an unmasked American buying a roll of toilet paper in a grocery store would tell you it’s the height of bigotry even to contemplate the disease threat posed by this amped-up human floodtide.
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