Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni unveiled her right-wing government's plans to crack down on people smugglers following a Cabinet meeting she led Thursday in the southern town near the beach where a wooden boat packed with migrants broke apart 11 days earlier, killing scores and leaving many missing.
By holding the meeting in Cutro, Calabria, instead of the capital, Rome, Meloni said she was stressing her resolve to "combat the slavery of the Third Millennium."She announced that her Cabinet had approved a decree establishing a new crime -- people smuggling that results in death or serious injury to migrants -- punishable by up to 30 years in prison, an exceptionally stiff sentence for crimes involving facilitating illegal immigration.
"Our task is to find solutions to the problem, and today, as I said, the best way to honour those victims is to do what one can so that this tragedy isn't repeated," Meloni said. The same decree will be wielded against those who finance the operations behind the smuggling, Nordio said. "We're talking about a boat that navigated for three days and ... never had a problem," the premier said. "It arrived in front of the Italian coast, 40 meters away. There wasn't and there couldn't have been any sign of a possible shipwreck" in the offing, she contended.
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