Italian citizenship for immigrant children, known as ‘jus soli‘ (‘law of the soil’), “isn’t in the government’s contract” Premier Giuseppe Conte said, but added that he hoped for a “calm reflection” of the issue in “the appropriate fora“. https://twitter.com/ansa_english/status/1111703696398794752 Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio rejected the idea that the government would discuss jus soli. “It won’t be…
Category: Immigration
Sea-Watch blames EU for migrant piracy
Malta informed its navy has seized control of a tanker ship hijacked by migrants in the Mediterranean, according to a government statement. (Image above: illustration). 📝PRESS RELEASE: #ELHIBRU1 yesterday boarded by @Armed_Forces_MT in #Malta 🇲🇹waters & escorted to MT after report by captain of threats to to change course & enter MT illegally. 100 immigrants disembarked,…
Senegalese sets school bus ablaze in protest
Senegalese immigrant Ousseynou Sy (47) was held by Carabinieri police after hijacking a bus with schoolchildren for subsequently setting ablaze in an apparent murder attempt, sources close to investigation said. According to an initial reconstruction, the assailant hijacked the bus with 51 pupils from school in the northern Italian province of Cremona. The suspect has…
Italian chopped alive by Nigerian migrants
Italian teenager Pamela Mastropietro who was murdered by Nigerian migrants last year was likely dismembered alive media reports. The gruesome details occurred in the testimony from Vincenzo Marino, a key witness in the trial of Nigerian drug dealer Innocent Oseghale accused of murdering the girl. Mastropietro had become estranged from her family addicted to drugs after…
Business refuses operations in Sweden ‘no-go’ zones
The U.S. shipping company UPS has refused delivering goods to a notorious neighborhood Rosengård (Rose Garden) in Malmo, Sweden, nowadays often called “no-go zone.” The decision to stop operations in the area came after a wave of attacks on the company drivers. https://twitter.com/RogerHalsted/status/1101433469731815425 The UPS company experience in the area, including robberies and related crimes, resulted in a…
Migrants attack Salvini in ECHR
Illegal migrants who were refused by Italy for several days after being rescued in the Mediterranean (August 2018) have filed two legal petitions against their treatment a pro Deo lawyer representing their interest said. Diciotti migrants sue Italian leaders for damages https://t.co/JF6o9mWXAP pic.twitter.com/f62toiTzjb — The Local Italy (@TheLocalItaly) February 21, 2019 Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who…
Australia to reopen Christmas Island for migrants
Australia will reopen a controversial detention center for asylum seekers on Christmas Island, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said after the defeat in parliament. Australian government to reopen island detention camp in anticipation of new migrant smuggling attempts. https://t.co/1waLKYDsIw — The Associated Press (@AP) February 13, 2019 The opposition Labor party and independents voted to amend…
Nigerian drug gang arrested in Sicily asylum
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said in a radio interview on RTL that the government will close the Cara asylum seeker centre in Mineo, Sicily, by the end of this year. “The bigger the centres are, the easier it is for criminals to infiltrate,” Salvini said. #Salvini: entro fine 2019 mi auguro chiusura anche del Cara…
Dutch refuse migrants from SeaWatch3
The Netherlands will refuse an Italian of the Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini requesting to accept 47 migrants on humanitarian ship that is being blocked from Italian ports, it said in an issued statement. https://twitter.com/AvSchoot/status/1089856708476915712 The Sea Watch 3, run by a German humanitarian group and flying a Dutch flag, recovered the migrants out of a…
Sea-Watch3 migrants awaiting for solution
The NGO rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, a German NGO under Dutch flag, remains stranded some 1.4 miles from the port of Syracuse as Italian authorities continue to refuse to allow disembarkation of the ship’s passengers. In a statement, Sea Watch said that without a safe port for the “exhausted shipwrecked” migrants, the Sea-Watch 3 on 24th…