They told Giorgia Meloni that she would pay with her life if she obstructed their activities.
The anti-immigration Italian prime minister and his daughter were threatened with death by people smugglers operating in the Mediterranean. The Rome cabinet decided on Monday that illegal immigrants arriving in Italy will continue to be detained in closed camps until their asylum applications are judged.
African human traffickers are taking revenge on the Italian prime minister for taking on organized crime and announcing that he would lock up illegal immigrants coming to Italy. The human traffickers told Meloni that the real migration explosion was just beginning, and that she and her child would have to pay for preventing their activities.
At Monday's meeting of the Council of Ministers, the Italian government decided and introduced strictures regarding illegal immigrants arriving in Italy.
The Italian government aims to keep migrants in closed camps until their asylum applications are processed. It can be up to 18 months. If the person in question is not entitled to an asylum application, he/she will be deported immediately.
The government's goal is to prevent those persons who are not entitled to move freely within the country and thus exclude risk factors. Meloni, with the involvement of the Ministry of National Defense, would create closed camps in settlements with a low population and well controlled, where these immigrants can be accommodated.
The question is how quickly they can achieve this, since the current reception centers are slowly filling up. The situation is critical not only on the island of Lampedusa, but also in Sicily. In the Porto Empedocle reception center, 1,200 people are housed in extremely poor conditions.
According to the latest press reports, three hundred people climbed over the fence and left the camp area yesterday, dispersing throughout the settlement. They asked for food and money from the locals, who are worried about the deterioration of public safety.
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