«We are here to hope that there may be a turning point and that this massacre will be canceled. I feel emotionally involved because the life of the people of Baraccopoli has often intertwined with Riace ». The MEP of AVS and Mayor of Riace said so Mimmo Lucano Visiting this morning in the industrial area of San Ferdinando alla Baraccopoli where the laborers of African origin reside between the barracks and the curtains installed 6 years ago by the Ministry of the Interior and the Civil Protection. Together with Lucano, a delegation made up of about 30 people among the exponents of the ANPI, of the Communist Refoundation, the left Green Alliance, Father Alex Zanotelli, The former mayor of Rosarno Peppino worked, Don Pino Demasi of Libera Calabria and the magistrate Emilio Sirianni, For years very close to Lucano and present by personal.
“It is not acceptable that in our land – added the AVS MEP – there are these conditions. I am here to reiterate that this slum must be closed immediately. I want to tell this massacre in Europe, I will say that in Italy there are situations of this kind to the limit of deportation. In Calabria there are many abandoned countries and they could be at the center of a reception design. I made myself against that through the welcome these abandoned countries could return to live ». For Lucano «a wider project is needed in the sign of the tradition of welcome and respect for human values. For this we are about to present a European bill on the issue of welcome and widespread residence ».
“I am here – said Sirianni – because precisely in places like these the sense of the power of Europe is given, which will never be represented by its armies, but by a dream of peace and rights. The European dream, in fact, is the recognition of rights to everyone starting from the last. Six million people continue to risk their lives in the crossing at sea to reach the unique strip of land in which the rights are recognized to everyone. This is the meaning of Europe’s flag, certainly not the tanks ». “It comes to mind that after 32 years in the judiciary – added Sirianni – I don’t know what justice is, but I certainly know what injustice is and it is precisely from this awareness that one should start again”.