Mimmo Lucano in Gioia Tauro: “No authorization for the 17 containers headed to Israel”

«No authorization. The 17 containers stopped at the port of Gioia Tauro, containing steel for war use and with final destination Israel, remain in Calabria”. This was stated in a note by MEP Mimmo Lucano after being at the port to ask for clarity on the traffic of “Dual Use” material, which has been stopped for months in the Calabrian port and officially destined for Haifa, the largest seaport in Israel, and after the news on the authorization for the departure of the cargo. «As an MEP, to make sure that Italy is not complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people by allowing the sending of containers containing war material to Israel – continues Lucano – today, together with Peppe Marra, of the Usb and Orsa Porti union, and Patrizio of Bds Calabria, I went to the port of Gioia Tauro to pay a visit and ask for urgent clarifications. The customs authorities have given official confirmation that the material contained in the containers is Dual Use steel, so we no longer have any doubts. Furthermore, the customs authorities told us that the containers were subjected to a catch-all procedure to verify the use of steel and that, until the Uama documentation arrives, the containers will remain in limbo of waiting. And we with them.” «I fear – concludes Lucano – that the irresponsibility of governments is mortgaging fundamental rights, limiting them to ‘residual issues’, as if what is happening in Palestine was marginal and did not deserve to be a central theme for the governments’ agenda. Yet we are witnessing a scenario in which brutal violence devours the right to exist of an entire people. It is our duty to rebel. We cannot accept that the Italian Government continues to have commercial relations with the State of Israel. We cannot allow European ports to be instruments of war.”