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#Italy: Human trafficking tragedy at the beaches of Qutro & What is to be done?

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#Italy: Human trafficking tragedy at the beaches of Qutro & What is to be done?
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/italy-migrants-paid-8-000-euros-each-for-voyage-17810077.php

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0:32.0

This is CBS I On The World, a tragedy in Coutro, Italy, and the response by the Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney.

0:41.0

I wonder if there is anyone in this nation, Italy, who believes, honestly, that the government deliberately let over 60 people die, including some children.

0:52.0

I ask you, looking into your eyes, if any of you think that the Italian government could have saved 60 people, including a child whose body was discovered today and did not do so, please let's be serious.

1:08.0

I welcome Lorenzo Fiore of the Ensauda Foundation, he is in Milan.

1:13.0

To help me understand this extremely passionate remark by Georgia Maloney about a crisis, an immigration crisis that is not only in Italy, but through the Mediterranean basin, in fact, across the European Union.

1:27.0

People from the Middle East or from the Sahil, from Africa, crossing very dangerous waters that now and again have storms that wreck their boats, reaching the European Union and seeking sanctuary.

1:42.0

Lorenzo, a very good evening to you. I understand this is politics, but at the same time to explore what happened.

1:49.0

What is the crisis on the shores of Coutro, Italy? What happened there?

1:55.0

Well, John, good evening to you and to all the radio listeners as always.

2:01.0

I can tell you that this is, first of all, a very sad tragedy. Second point, it is becoming pretty crazy here in Italy that the bait around such a tragedy.

2:13.0

I can tell you that the large part of the medium talking about not only the TV, but also the magazine and the journal are all they speaking about who is responsible for such a tragedy.

2:30.0

I am sympathetic with the Georgia Maloney. It is really absurd to think that the government could have deliberately left this boat alone.

2:43.0

Clearly, there are some responsibilities related to the way the operation are conducted in terms of police control of our border and in terms of rescue operation.

2:54.0

Just to let the radio listeners understand that in Italy, there are two groups. They are different with different tasks.

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