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Meloni: "Does anyone really think that the government wanted to let migrants die?" - Video

The Prime Minister says that "no communication has arrived from Frontex" and that he has considered holding a Council of Ministers in Cutro.

04/03/2023

During the press point in Abu Dhabi, at the end of the visit to the United Arab Emirates, Giorgia Meloni was asked if she had read the letter mayor of Crotone Vincenzo Voce in which he invites her to Crotone to express his solidarity with the mourning that hit the city after the shipwreck that deposited 69 bodies on the Calabrian coasts and the number of missing is not yet clear. The mayor Voce in the letter invites Giorgia Meloni to visit Crotone as a mother if not as an institutional presence, a presence of which the mayor denounces the lack.

"I haven't read it," said Giorgia Meloni, responding to reporters in Abu Dhabi. Then referring to the tragic event: "These people were not in a position to be saved", he says, it is reckless "to think that Italy did not want or could not save these people including a 3-year-old child. Let's be serious. The question is simple in its tragic nature. No emergency communication came from Frontex", notes the President of the Council, "we were not warned. Nothing about this story has anything to do with the government's measures with NGOs," Meloni adds. "We continue to save all people, this is the story. There are no subjects on which one can exaggerate like this in an attempt to criticize or hit one's opponents", he concludes.

To those who ask her if she has considered going to Cutro, she replies: "Look, I have evaluated something more, namely to celebrate the next Council of Ministers in Cutro"