(ANSA) Rome, April 22 - Destroying boats used by people
smugglers in their Libyan lairs can only be "one step" to
solving the mushrooming migrant crisis, Italian Bishops'
Conference (CEI) secretary-general Monsignor Nunzio Galantino
said Wednesday.
"This is a moment in which all routes must be taken, all
solutions must be adopted to avoid other tragedies such as the
one in the Strait of Sicily," said the prelate.
"Immigration is a complex problem and therefore it can't
be resolved with a simplification of the sinking of boats that
can only be one step".
"I hope the solutions to be adopted are not the fruit of
animosity ... or worse still of people who want to garner some
votes from this tragedy".
Galantino added that "the refusal of the regions and
boroughs that don't want to accept more refugees speak for
themselves, they mean that on this theme of immigration we
continue to treat it as an emergency when it is no longer an
emergency".
"... It is also true that Italy on its own can't solve
this," he added.
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