THE STORY "We financiers hostages Tripolisu those ships do not want to go up" The testimony of an officer engaged in joint patrols: "The Libyans behave as if they owned. What has happened is unbelievable," From our correspondent VIVIANOLAMPEDUSA FRANCISCO - "Shooting is the last resort in cases of great danger. But certainly a vessel could not be a danger. They wanted to fix it? There are techniques that allow, without the use of arms. But you know what is the saddest thing? While the Libyans fired my colleagues on board was powerless. Because they could not do anything, they could not intervene. Our hands are tied: our only task is to teach soldiers in Tripoli to rule those patrol boats of 28 meters that our government has sold to the Libyan. I talked with my colleagues on board and I can assure you they are, to say the least, shocked and can not wait to return to Italy. Also because the Libyans against us certainly do not behave well. We are accommodated in a hotel, but it is all fenced in, is a kind of prison from which we come out only to go to sea with them for the activities planned. "The speaker is a lieutenant of the Guard of Finance, 45 years, more than half spent at sea patrols in the Strait of Sicily. The officer has two children and so many experiences at sea. Hard life because it is still committed to the services of non-refoulement, which are locked out of our territorial waters and brought back to Libya. "What happened the day before yesterday is really unbelievable, unfortunately, we are commanded to make those services and we are forced to board those ships, because the agreements between the Libyan government and provide for the Italian." The officer said that on each of those means go up five or six Italians. "Each of us has a specific task: taking care of the communication, the conduct the patrol boat, the engines and other technical aspects. We can not interfere for any reason. On board, on land, the Libyans act as "masters", often arrogant and unfriendly. And we have to endure. The more money we earn in these missions are not worth their game. Especially when, as happened the other day, we watch helplessly in an attempt to collision with the use of weapons, our weapons against the defenseless countrymen. All that we can not bear. "The financiers are trying, when they sense that we set sail for special operations, not to climb on board." In order to avoid episodes like the one to attend on Sunday. Now the Libyan soldiers know them a bit 'and we know that when we set sail for certain directions it is exposed to trouble. And when we doubt, for one reason or another, we refuse to get on board with them. The other day my colleagues apparently did not suspect anything. "Our soldiers who carry out anti-immigration patrols are between two fires. On the one hand there are orders and orders must be, like it or not, respected" . But since the public prosecutor of Siracusa has investigated some soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza to have "rejected" non-intercepted at sea in international waters, are still in difficulty. "What should we do? If you do not reject them run into disciplinary action, if we reject them suspects. And then how to get out? This story of rejections is one of the cruelest services we do. And for many months there are cases of "mutiny" in the sense that many patrol boats, which had set sail from the ports of Liguria and Tuscany to give us the change does not start right. Our colleagues rightly refuse to perform this service "shameful" that does not make us sleep at night. But we do not want to sail a plausible and therefore often the captain or an officer must be "sick." Or the boat there is a "technical problem". "In the sea there are no shortcuts to playing the" rejections "." This, as mentioned, is a service 'infamous', and then each of us takes responsibilities, risks. So if we cling to something we do, transferring the immigrants on board that we meet at sea, for security reasons and especially for health reasons. But even this work is not easy because many illegal immigrants are willing to do anything, they are afraid that they are being returned to Libya and then threaten to kill himself in front of us. Even women with their babies in their arms, we pray to save them. We are told that they are ready to let drown her children. In this situation, what do you do? I am a soldier, but above all a man, a father. And at the risk of disciplinary action, I will not ever again. One of these days I will have to be accountable to someone and I voglio avere la coscienza pulita".(15 settembre 2010) La Repubblica
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