[ May 10, 2024 ]
“’They can do whatever they believe,’ Interior Minister Matteo Salvini tweeted, shrugging off the development that migrants were refusing meals aboard the Italian coast guard vessel Diciotti.”
If Europe has a shot, it will be the result of the new wave of politicians elected on the promise of defense of human freedom.
One of the foremost of those is the new Italian Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, who has rightly pointed out that Italy has been left largely alone to cope with the Muslim migrant influx since 2015. He wants other EU nations to take these migrants rather than Italy being forced to take still more. And he is right: it’s the Northern European EU nations that have brought about this inundation of migrants. Let those nations take them.
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“Migrants Aboard Italian Coast Guard Ship Begin Hunger Strike,” Associated Press, August 24, 2018 (thanks to Todd):
ROME (AP) — Many of the 150 migrants stranded aboard a coast guard ship for a ninth day began a hunger strike Friday out of frustration that Italy won’t let them disembark in Sicily unless fellow European Union nations first pledge to take them, authorities said, in the latest standoff provoked by Italy’s anti-migrant interior minister.
“They can do whatever they believe,” Interior Minister Matteo Salvini tweeted, shrugging off the development that migrants were refusing meals aboard the Italian coast guard vessel Diciotti. The ship rescued them on Aug. 16 from a foundering human trafficker’s boat in the central Mediterranean, and for days now has been docked in the port of Catania, Sicily.
An opposition lawmaker, Sen. Davide Faraone said that on Friday Catania port officials told him “there’s tension” on the ship and that migrants have stopped eating.
Thirteen young children and ailing adults were evacuated from the Diciotti early in the drama. On Wednesday, 27 minors, all teenagers, were allowed to disembark in Catania. Salvini has been adamant that Italy’s populist government won’t allow any of the 150 adults still aboard the vessel disembark unless other EU nations commit to taking the asylum-seekers.
All but about 18 of those aboard are Eritrean; the others are from Somalia, Syria and Sudan. They have told authorities they suffered months and even years of inhumane treatment in detention in Libya, while waiting to leave that lawless country aboard smugglers’ boats.
Another opposition lawmaker who went aboard on Thursday expressed particular concern about 11 women, some as young as 19 or 20, still there.
Appealing to Salvini, Laura Boldrini said: “As a father, they could be your daughter. At least let the young women off” the Diciotti.
Sky TG24 TV said some women aboard ate lunch Friday but the men refused the meal.
But Salvini was staying tough, as was fellow deputy premier, Luigi Di Maio, who heads the senior coalition partner, the euro-skeptic 5-Star Movement.
Di Maio threatened that Italy could withhold some of its yearly 20 billion euro ($23 billion) contribution to the bloc if EU nations didn’t make good on promises earlier this year for more solidarity toward the Italians, who have seen more than 600,000 rescued migrants brought to Italian shores in recent years.
If the European Commission meeting doesn’t “decide anything about the Diciotti ship and the re-distribution of the migrants, I and all the 5-Star Movement are no longer willing to give 20 billion to the European Union,” Di Maio said….</blockquote<
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51 Comments
5 years ago
Which brings about the question: Why are they feeding those vile creatures, in the first place?
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Well, they’ve got to be nourished when they reach land. I mean, you don’t want a group of malnourished people running around trying to set cars on fire and having to quit before the job is done due to vitamin deficiency, do you.
5 years ago
Big Macs for all of them. Then, the ship should sail to their land, and drop them off with bags of snacks
5 years ago
Motor off to Spain and drop them off. Best 12 miles off shore and they can swim for it.
5 years ago
A nation has the right and obligation to protect its citizens from assault and rape. Many of these migrants are uncivilized and uneducated. Many do not know how to use a bathroom, but instead use the streets. Diseases that are prevalent in third world countries have been brought to Europe. A couple of years ago, an Egyptian billionaire offered to buy an island for migrants and help them to build homes and schools. His offer was rejected because the migrants want free food, clothing and shelter from civilized countries.
5 years ago
If Italy doesn’t ‘rescue’ them, they don’t have to deal with them. It isn’t rocket science.
5 years ago
The Syrian civil war is effectively over — and President Assad is back in control.
Now send the invaders back.
5 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Going to war based on video made by Al-qaeda affiliates was height of stupidity.
It took Israelis to expose truth about Palestinian fakery and Lies and boy was Trump furious when he realised how he had been conned http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
When Flynn was head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and afterwards, he blew the whistle on the U.S. and its allies willfully allowing Islamic terrorists to flourish in Syria. ( Kickbacks to Hillary and Hussein for gun running weapons to Jihadists; no wonder she *lost* $6 Billion ).
That didn’t ingratiate him with the Deep State …
5 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
No. Muslims will stay in Europe and will take over. It’s mohammad’s will
5 years ago
Reply to
spacearcadian
MohaMad has or had no will.
He was a schizophrenic that obeyed and acted on whatever the voice in his head was telling him at the time as in the case of most schizophrenics.
This is a position taken by numerous members of the psychiatric world based upon mohaMads erratic behaviour throughout the koran and hadiths.
If alive today he would be diagnosed as criminally insane and kept in a secure hospital for life.
Try not to follow the common heard and think for yourself about the track record of this very far from perfect man.
5 years ago
I hope they go all the way with their hunger strike. 150 less vermin to multiple an infest this world.
5 years ago
They’ll never follow through with it. Another Muslim lie.
5 years ago
These migrants all have high-end cellphones they can call Uber. Frankly, let them starve; the ba**ards are no more than toxic waste. It is time for nations to get their priorities straight, protecting their citizenry. Following in the footsteps of Germany, France, Britain is tantamount to extinction of one’s people and culture, ethnic cleansing by one’s own hand.
5 years ago
I often wonder where “refugees” get the money to pay the smugglers. I’ve heard, correct me if I’m wrong, that illegals led by “coyotes” must pay into the thousands to get into the U.S.
5 years ago
Reply to
G.j. Cox
Yes, that’s true. Sometimes the price even includes a Social security card.
5 years ago
Hunger strikes do not make sense to me. OK, go hungry, your choice.
5 years ago
Excuse me, but it this supposed to alarm me?
By all means send them back so they can feed.
Even savages need to eat.
5 years ago
Muslims are not putting on this laughable melodrama for those of us who know their game, it’s for the bleeding-heart Libtards, the useful idiots who will mindlessly advocate for them.
Fortunately Italy is run by a right-wing gov’t now and the hate unleashed by the Left against Salvini has convinced him more than ever he’s on the right path, like Trump.
Refugee today, Jihadi tomorrow, people are finally starting to wise up to the tricks Islamofascists play on us.
5 years ago
The Daily Mail is celebrating KENYA – where Obama has roots. truly they won’t like western culture.
These are young boys celebrating their “coming of age.”
They should go back. Notice DM – “We are no longer accepting comments on this article.”
It’s like DM BAITS you to censor you. These are ALL genuine pictures of their ceremony. More are at DM.
I think there may be a cultural class here… if they migrate to the west.
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http://drkwaku.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/al-maasai-warrior1.jpg
Little warriors! Thousands of Maasai boys take part in their coming of age ceremony, that only happens once every five or ten years
By SAM LOCK and REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 09:32 EDT, 24 August 2018 | UPDATED: 11:19 EDT, 24 August 2018
Thousands of Kenyan boys took part in a rare Maasai initiation ceremony
It happens only once every five to ten years and marks boys passing into early manhood
Boys aged between nine and 15 are painted with ochre, a deep red pigment made from clay
Those chosen to be future leaders are marked by elaborate white paint patterns on their faces and bodies
Within five years the boys will be recognised as Maasai warriors: brave and strong young men who defend the community
Tribe elders spray milk and beer onto the boys as a blessing
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Daily Male – NOT! Fggt organization. If you criticize Negroes or even question the article about Megroes and Moslems they BAN YOU. But, believe it or not you can trash whites on the site.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
The Daily Mail used to be a right wing newspaper and even supported the British Nazi Oswald Mosley pre WW2. Now in the last 10 years theyv completes a full turn and gone to the left. Tommy Robinson recently had one of their journos by the balls as he was harassing Tommy and his family in Spain. True! They have click bait reports and photos then ban you when you comment!
5 years ago
Please, go back to where you came from, the Italian people do not want you in their beautiful country.
5 years ago
Toss them overboard!
The sharks are hungry too!
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5 years ago
No pita for you! LOL!
5 years ago
“Many of the 150 migrants stranded aboard a coast guard ship for a ninth day began a hunger strike Friday….” Gee, that’s awful. Perhaps these filthy immigrants can take their hunger strike ‘all the way’ if they are so ‘committed.’ I know, I’m rooting for them……
5 years ago
So let the rapugees die if that is what they want. Think of all the women and children spared being raped.
5 years ago
When they croak, throw them overboard so they don’t stink up the place.
5 years ago
No water, no food and burial at sea. Just scuttle those un-seaworthy vessels somewhere deep or you will end up like San Francisco, a third world city?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-22/san-francisco-poop-patrollers-make-185000
5 years ago
Not a hunger strike,they are homesick and starving makes them feel like they’re back home.
Southern Poverty Law Center supports Islamoterrorism.
5 years ago
You mean the Red Cross food is that bad??
5 years ago
I would be all for none of them eating. Ever.
5 years ago
Take them back to Libya where they can eat their halal muck!
5 years ago
throw them over the side. sharks gotta eat too. seriously, why do they think that others care if they intentionally hurt themselves so they can get their own way? This childish type behavior shouldn`t be rewarded or encouraged, but punished instead. For instance, no meals to-day. If you refuse breakfast in the morning,then no meals tomorrow, etc., etc.. One solution is to take them back where they came from, and drive them off the ship at gun point, if necessary.
5 years ago
As a matter of fact they look like they’re bad people. I say starve them to death.
5 years ago
Let them all starve. These people are absolutely ridiculous.
5 years ago
Invite the eu leadership down, Kill ALL the invaders right in front of them and then say , “now YOU are next!” And THEN finish THEM off!
5 years ago
I reread this story 4-5 times and still can not see what the problem is?
Slimmer Cult stages hunger strike. Great we all get to see if They believe in their little pedo slimmer cult enough to starve to death, I hope that is what they mean, so stand back and let them do it. Win Win.
They are allowed to prove their stupidity and are also able to be truly moderate slimmers and some of the very best Muslimers. Dead One’s.
5 years ago
America supports the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Don’t let the European Commission blackmail you into letting these illegal immigrants/muslims, enter Italy! Let them starve themselves to
death. They are part of the nefarious muslim plan to overtake the Western, developed countries,
(Europe and of course the United States).
These muslims will torture and kill anyone they think is an infidel.
5 years ago
A hunger strike? I guess that will save the taxpayers some money.
5 years ago
I do not understand how this shall work, or play out. The mass migration movement has given no indication it is slowing. And even now, it is very likely too late.
Countries, continents, unfolding upon a third continent? Demographic shifts coming fast and furious.
It’s not going to work, it is not working.
It makes no sense. What are you doing?
I simply cannot understand how the leaders and citizens of these host countries, stating it politely, and in politically correct terminology, how they have not fathomed the ramifications of their complicity, and their complacency.
5 years ago
Let them starve. Nobody wants them.
5 years ago
Good. That much less to worry about. Burial at sea. No expense.
