Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi «is 100% supported by the government, the team is compact. They are only journalistic controversies ».
This was stated by the deputy prime minister and minister of transport and infrastructure, Matteo Salvini , in an interview with Rtl, speaking of the owner of the Viminale, attacked by the opposition for possible responsibilities of the department in the Cutro massacre . The minister had also ended up in the storm for some of his statements about the victims, including: "Desperation can never justify travel conditions that endanger the lives of one's children".
The leader of the League also rejected the accusations of possible negligence attributable to his ministry: «The Coast Guard was notified when the tragedy occurred» , he explained, underlining that «also bringing up a body of excellence of the State, sailors who risk their lives to save other lives, it seems to me really low politics.
More generally, on the issue of migrants «Europe needs to be involved , setting up listening points for those who need to be welcomed. The victims paid between seven thousand and nine thousand dollars for a trip: they are not trips of hope, but real trafficking», he added.
«According to data from the UN and the institutes that refer to the European Commission, in the last 10 years the year in which there were fewer deaths in the Mediterranean was 2019 by chance, the year in which I was Minister of the Interior and in which they were force the safety decrees, because it is obvious that the fewer people you send away by smugglers and traffickers, the fewer people risk", concluded Salvini.
