NGO's accused of being "taxi for migrants"


In recent weeks, some non-governmental organizations operating search and rescue services in the central Mediterranean have been accused of being "taxi for migrants": in a more or less unconscious way, these charities would help shapers and traffickers of human beings to carry thousands Of migrants in Italy. The issue was born after Frontex, the European Border Control Agency, has accused some NGO's of indirectly helping skeptics. The accusations have been resumed by numerous newspapers and politicians in the center and this week was also spoken by the Vice President of the House, Luigi Di Maio of the 5 Star Movement, the first to use the expression "taxi for migrants". Di Maio replied to Roberto Saviano with an article on the Republic and today the issue has also been expressed by the prosecutor of Catania, who has long been investigating on NGO financiers and the broadcast Agora has confessed a series of rather original suspicions, say.