Italian Police Investigate father Mussie Zerai

Regime change activist Mussie Zerai is under investigation for immigration facilitation

This article was translated from Italian using online software

By Alessandra Ziniti

To make his name to the investigators were the two security officers embarked aboard the ship Vos Hestia of Save The children that revealed the existence of a secret chat between the leader's teams aboard the humanitarian ships.

Don Mussie Zerai, Eritrean priest who has lived in Italy for years and is a point of reference for thousands of his fellow citizens who face the journey to Europe, he is among the investigators of the prosecutor of Trapani in the context of the investigation for aiding the clandestine immigration that has already led to the seizure of the Juventa ship of the German NGO Jugende Straightt. Even for the priest the accusation would be the same.

According to the two witnesses, the priest who received communications from migrants embarked on the traffickers' inflatable boats, would do so with the members of the NGOs by reporting day, time and location of the boats to be rescued.

Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, founder and president of the Habeshia Information agency, defined as "the life buoy of migrants", with whom it offers telephone assistance to migrants departing, stimulating the intervention of the authorities in the places where boats are in difficulty, Don Zerai glòi Men of the mobile team of Trapani have notified a warranty notice

"I only learned about the investigation Monday," says Mussie Zerai, "and I want to go deep into this affair." I went back to Rome from Ethiopia in the past, "he added," I received a lot of phone calls every day. I would know why, 'but my intervention has always been for humanitarian purposes.' The investigation, according to judicial environment, refers to presumed pressure from the prelate at the bodies responsible for rescue at sea. "Even before informing NGOs," he says, "every time I alerted the Italian and Maltese Coast Guard operational centers, I have never had any contact with Iuventa, I have secret chat, I have always communicated through my cell phone" .

On the NGO front, this morning another organization that had already announced by email its membership, has officially signed the code of conduct to the Viminale. It's the German Sea eye. For the moment they are four out of eight NGOs that have joined, to these could be added tomorrow Sos Mediterranèe who asked for a meeting to clarify some perplexities that have until now pushed the organization to remain in the face of "no". There are still Doctors without frontiers and the other two German Sea Watch and Jugend tuition, the latter at the center of the survey of Trapani that now passes under the coordination of the new prosecutor Alfredo Morvillo.

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