"So the army can block NGOs in a few days and land migrants"
General Vincenzo Santo is certain: landings of migrants can be stopped. Just use the army for what it was created: defend the boundaries. But is it true that immigration is "an epochal phenomenon that can not be stopped"? It is not. If you wanted to, in a few days the Italian army could stop the migratory flows.
Vincenzo Santo, former NATO chief of Afghanistan, former Chief of Staff of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), now collaborating with one of the most important defense information sites, is believed by General Vincenzo Santo.
"We have the tools - say the general - to control the Libyan coasts without foot. The migratory routes that we are facing converge on Tripoli, on the one hand through Fezzan, on the other by crossing the Libyan south-east area to then Aidabiya's coastline The area to be controlled is much narrower than it is. Firstly, the blocking of the Ong ships should be blocked in order to prevent its entry into Libyan waters, and then to hit the slaves 'domicile' With our special forces capturing them and transferring them to our prisons. All this without waiting for the blessing of international bodies and without fear of violating the national sovereignty of some.Ours is violated whenever a non-Italian ship takes us home that miserable human burden. "Translated: if wanted, Italy could hit and destroy the traffic of migrants by ending the great invasion .
The general does not hide that there is intolerance among the ranks of the army over what the government is doing about immigration. "The colleagues and the old co-workers with whom I am in contact - say to Libero - show the same anger that feeds, I think, the majority of citizens. Moreover, how do you get trust in institutions when irregular migrants who few Days ago in Milan he stabbed a cop who was released, even if he was expelled, and maybe he will come back. And it's easy to imagine the frustration of those who are on the street in the streets to ensure the security of citizens. "
He does not share the idea of creating migration camps in Libya : "We are spending money for a government that still has to prove that it can control the territory," he says, "where the various tribes that share power often make double play and However, for humanitarian reasons, they could not even entrust to them the management of any camps. Instead they were organized and paid in Tunisia and Egypt, perhaps in Algeria as well, I refer to Egypt, reconstructing the diplomatic relationship After the break of the Regeni case ".
And for clandestines who have not been granted asylum, the General General thinks it is necessary to increase the capabilities of the Order's forces to arrest, charge on the aircraft and send the migrant back. Even though the country of origin does not cooperate: "It is necessary to entrust the forces of the Order with the task of tracing them and making them available to the various consular authorities for certain identification of illegal immigrants - concludes Holy - even though they have been well instructed to obliterate Documents, with the excuse that they have been stolen or detained by the skeptics, so you can not prove which country they are from. But I am convinced that if you want to go back to the immigrant's nationality, you still can, unless it is convenient Different approach ".
