Italy wants to take drastic prison sentences against people smugglers in the Mediterranean. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Thursday after a meeting of the Council of Ministers that smugglers and moneylenders could face prison sentences of up to 30 years if fatal accidents occur during irregular crossings. The right-wing government in Rome is responding to the boat accident off the coast of Calabria in which at least 72 migrants and refugees died at the end of February.
Meloni had assembled her cabinet in the town of Cutro, on the bank of which the accident occurred. “We wanted to send a symbolic and concrete signal,” says Meloni about the meeting and the decree on stricter criminal law for people smugglers. “I want to fight and conquer these people,” she said of those “dealers of death.”
Meloni announced that the new catalog of punishments will not only affect smugglers and smugglers caught on Italian territory or in Italian waters, but worldwide. (sda/dpa)
Soource :Watson
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