We are not fish

“We are not fish:” said Fanny, who fled from an armed conflict in Congo and was aboard the Sea Watch rescue boat for 19 days.

“I won’t be able to talk anymore because I am about to freeze. Hurry up,” these were the last words of the last call to the Alarm Phone. They came from a vessel with around 100 people adrift off the coast of the Libyan city Misrata last Sunday.

“I don’t need to be in the news, I need to be saved.”

Here are the facts: several days ago, within a few hours, 170 migrants and refugees lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea. Forty-seven were rescued by Sea Watch, and around 100 were picked up by a Sierra Leone cargo ship and taken to the port of Misrata where, predictably, they were locked up in one of Libya’s (legal or illegal) detention centers. In these places—according to the U.N. and all the independent agencies—people are regularly abused, beaten, tortured and raped.

In what would be a repetition of the painful and inhumane ordeal that Sea Watch 3 and its passengers endured after a similar rescue last December, the ship’s search for safe harbor will likely last for weeks.

Tragedies like this indicate that the value we put on human life is depreciating.

Sea Watch, it’s worth remembering, is the only active ONG rescue vessel present today in the Mediterranean Sea, signifying how badly the area has been deprived of health, rescue, and protection safeguard for the castaways. These humanitarian vessels are not in any way a magnet for migrants, or “an ally of the smugglers,” or “a sea cab:” the remaining few are saving the honor of a European Union, which is not even capable of feeling ashamed and showing compassion.
We want to give voice to a public opinion that, in front of such tragedy, demands to restore the respect of international laws and conventions, and, most of all, to restore a sense of justice. And we begin by allowing military vessels and NGOs that rescue human lives to intervene and do their job.
To the ones who pretend not to know the conditions of those that are being sent to Libyan detention centers—aided, in part, by Italian means and resources—we demand an investigation into the workings of the Libyan coast guard and more transparency (documents, videos and related communications) on the most recent shipwrecks, like the one that caused 117 casualties.

Hence, we demand the Parliament to create a commission to investigate the carnage in the Mediterranean Sea and to spearhead a diplomatic mission to Libya.
We are also demanding the Italian Government offer safe harbor to Sea Watch—which rescued 47 people last Saturday—to ensure the odyssey experienced last December off the coast of Malta is not repeated.

We also want to remind all European countries that the redistribution of the migrants should happen on land, not at sea.

This is why we will be in Piazza Montecitorio in Rome on Jan. 28 at 5 pm.
We will not be complicit in this ongoing carnage.

To join us, please email nonsiamopesci@gmail.com.

The complete list of all our signatories will be posted here on abuondiritto.it

FIRME:

Luigi Manconi
Massimo Cacciari
Giacomo Marramao
Emanuele Macaluso
Armando Spataro
Amref
Sandro Veronesi
Elena Stancanelli
Franco Cordelli
Michela Murgia
Teresa Ciabatti
Luca Doninelli
Caterina Bonvicini
Chiara Valerio
Francesca d’Aloja
Gipi
Hamid Ziarati
Roberto Alajmo
Giuseppe Genna
Jhumpa Lahiri
Niccolò Ammaniti
Alessandro Baricco
Roberto Saviano
Massimo Recalcati
Paolo Giordano
Helena Janeczeck
Edoardo Nesi
Antonio Pennacchi
Nicola Lagioia
Carlo Lucarelli
Marco Amerighi
Francesca Serafini
Giordano Meacci
Silvia Avallone
Mauro Covacich
Marcello Fois
Marco Vichi
Fabio Geda
Evelina Santangelo
Maurizio De Giovanni
Marco Missiroli
Emanuele Trevi
Fabio Genovesi
Umberto Galimberti
Guido Brera
Raffaele Manica
Valeria Parrella
Sandra Petrignani
Paolo Di Paolo
Sergio Claudio Perroni
Mario Desiati
Christian Raimo
Francesco Pacifico
Diego De Silva
Paolo Di Stefano
Elena Loewenthal
Roberto Ferrucci
Giancarlo Liviano D’Angelo
Simone Lenzi
Serena Dandini
Carola Susani
Leonardo Colombati
Valeria Viganò
Tiziana Lo Porto
Rossella Milone
Alessandra Sarchi
Andrea Tarabbia
Elena Varvello
Christian Frascella
Emanuela Canepa
Riccardo Falcinelli
Melissa Panarello
Romano Madera
Vanni Santoni
Gaia Rayneri
Silvia Giagnoni
Michele Dalai
Nadia Terranova
Leonardo Caffo
Andrea Pomella
Eugenio Mazzarella
Susanna Fioretti
Tiziana Triana
Leonardo Caffo
Emiliano Poddi
Stefano Petrocchi
Paolo Repetti
Ernesto Franco
Dalia Oggero
Luca Ussia
Stefano Eco
Marco Cassini
Edizioni Sur
Scuola del libro
Grande Invasione Festival
Loredana Lipperini
Flaminia Siciliano
Lorenza Pieri
Giulia Civiletti
Rosella Postorino
Rocco Pinto
Antonella Tarpino
Marco Magnone
Sara Gamberini
Ivano Porpora

Roberto Benigni
Matteo Garrone
Alessandro Bergonzoni
Paolo Virzì
Carlo Verdone
Gabriele Muccino
Giovanni Veronesi
Mario Martone
Antonio Albanese
Emma Dante
Edoardo De Angelis,
Ferzan Ozpetek
Leonardo Pieraccioni
Daniele Vicari
Marco Risi
Francesco Bruni
Anna Negri
Francesca Comencini
Francesca Archibugi
Lucio Pellegrini
Riccardo Rodolfi,
Paolo Genovese
Maria Sole Tognazzi
Alice Rohrwacher
Saverio Costanzo
Massimo Coppola
Matteo Rovere
Roberto Andò
Daniele Gaglianone
Marco Ponti
Valentina Pedicini
Laura Bispuri
Emanuele Scaringi
Andrea Gropplero
Giovanni Storti
Giacomo Poretti
Kim Rossi Stuart
Luca Marinelli
Diego Abatantuono
Pierfrancesco Favino
Toni Servillo
Alessandro Gassmann
Neri Marcorè
Pietro Sermonti
Valerio Mastandrea
Luigi Lo Cascio
Rocco Papaleo
Alessandro Haber
Giuseppe Cederna
Urbano Barberini
Vincenzo Pirrotta
Marco Presta
Tommaso Ragno
Iaia Forte
Alba Rohrwacher
Valeria Solarino
Kasia Smutniak
Margherita Buy
Laura Morante
Pina Turco
Valeria Golino
Isabella Ferrari
Donatella Finocchiaro
Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere
Fabrizia Sacchi
Lunetta Savino
Silvia Calderoni
Camilla Paternò
Raffaella Lebboroni
Domenico Procacci
Giampaolo Letta
Carlo Degli Esposti
Nicola Giuliano
Ginevra Elkann
Luciano Stella
Cecilia Valmarana
I 100 autori
Antonio Leotti
Laura Paolucci
Francesca Marciano
Ippolita di Majo
Ludovica Rampoldi
Francesca Manieri
Manuela Cavallari
Moira Mazzantini
Simona Bonaiuto
Ilaria Fraioli
Tiziana Rita Mazzola
Marco Tirelli
Heidi Robin Kennedy
Oliviero Toscani
Fabio Lovino
Nicola Piovani
Vasco Brondi
Giuliano Sangiorgi
Emma Marrone
Dori Ghezzi
Fiorella Mannoia
Daniele Silvestri
Simone Cristicchi
Niccolò Fabi
Teresa De Sio
Francesco Bianconi
Frankie Hi nrg
Massimiliano (Max) Casacci
Franco Piersanti
Stefano Senardi
Lele Marchitelli
Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi
Luca Bernini
Jasmin Bahrabadi
Arianna d’Aloja
Sandro Campagna
Alessandro Bonan
Marco Bucciantini
Massimo Zampini
Luca Momblano
Gad Lerner
Christian Rocca
Pierluigi Battista
Valerio Nicolosi
I ragazzi e le ragazze di Scomodo
Federica Angeli
Malcom Pagani
Nello Scavo
Paola Tavella
Sergio Staino
Domenico De Masi
Marco Revelli
Marta Bellingreri
Alessio Mamo
Valentina Calderone
Valentina Brinis
Valentina Moro
Federica Graziani
Salvatore Natoli
Moreno Montanari
Paola Caridi
Paola Gallo
Lucia Campione
Giovanna Gatti
Corrado Bontempi
Lucia Brandoli
Manuela Conti
Rachele Palmieri
Francesca Chiappa
Maura Chiulli
Sabrina D’Antini
Maria Flavia Vanni
Alberto Molinari
Alda Birri Alunno
Alessandra Urbani
Sonia Mele
Rita Agus
Paola Ronco
Nicolò Grascelli
Silvana Sorana
Alessandro De Nisi
Antonio Paolacci
Patrizia Serafini
Paola Calderara
Maria Wanjera Ghimenton
Graziella Rocca
Francesco Follieri
Francesca D’Alessi
Bruno Calandrino
Rossana Bigliardi
Alessandro Taddei
Elena Paparelli
Laura Eduati
Vito Palumbo
Giorgia Piras
Donatella Cortiula
Carlo Noviello e l’Organizzazione "Il Villaggio di Esteban"
Giulia Blascovich
Zaira Zingone
Micol Arianna Beltramini
Alessandra Arduini
Agnese Meneghel
Agenzia Habeshia
Lorenza Dalai
Emanuela Soldano
Stefano Acconci
Enrico Mario Puggioni
Simonetta Carraro
Agnese Martini
Rino Falcone
Lucia Pandolfi
Giovanni Ponsetto
Paola Zaccheroni
Lia Gaudesi
Giuseppe Pagliuca
Lucia Tosti
Orietta Filippone
Valentina Diana
Renzo David
Rossella Savio
Marco Giacosa
Elisabetta Pedrazzi
Giulia Di Sacco
Eliana Favretto
Mariafrancesca D'Agostino
Daniela Cristina Morano
Anna Rocca
Roberto Guizzi
Roberto Mastroianni
Costanza Coletti
Valentina Mira
Clara Negro
Paolo Luciani
Erika Bernacchi
Giovanna Zoboli
Roberto Borsa
Marzia Ravazzini
Emilio Radice
Gabriella Guido e Associazione Kalma
Domenico Massano
Paolo Brogi
Maria Palozzi
Teresa Eccher
Isabella C. Blum
Aleonna Masella
Carla Arosio
Gianna Musatti
Fabio Cagnetti
Graziano Solinas
Marina Morpurgo
Gian Paolo Faella
Tiziana Sellato
Teresa Pennone
Giuliana Giuliani
Giuliana Mongardi
Claudio Gnesotto
Francesca Fanteria
Valentina Mattiello
Pietro Lauro
Carla Di Nardo
Renata Feltrin
Paolo Pagotto
Rosaria Ruffini
Luca Landò
Silvana Patriarca
Bettina Cadeddu
Andrea Spinelli Barrile
Luciana Cimino
Alessandra Decina
Alberto Caferri
Pier Luigi Pieralli
Assunta Sarlo
Sandro Pintossi
Michele Marvulli
Michele Strazza
Maresa Tosco
Laura Felicissimo
Mariagrazia Fornaroli
Michele Figurelli
Vega Scalera
Claudia Melotti
Anna Bellamacina
Leonardo Animali
Marco Magurno
Valentina Marmiroli
Nicola Moroni
Maurizio La Rosa
Debora Bellinzani
Michela Ulivi
Graziella Scutellà
Laura Matteucci
Mariella Petacco
Margherita Salvo
Gabriella Liberatore
Rossella Viaconzi
Renzo Laporta
Marta Baiocchi
Maura Antonini
Rita Bonetti
Anna Nappi
Anna Maria Cappelli
Patrizia Lugo Loprieno
Cecilia Grixoni
Alessandra Danesi
Raffaella Soleri
Nelly Bocchi
Marco Gaibazzi
Sara Soldi
Marco Bigatti
Eleonora Zamboni
Marina de Vincenzis
Fernanda Graziani
Angela Maria Piras
Federica Giardini
Simona Tudisco
Laura Tutrone
Angelo Lucio Rossi
Linda Vellar
Nadia Bertolani
Alice Moro
Anna Capello
Giovanna Viviani
Elvira Petrarca
Silvia Vignoli
Giorgia Lanzilli
Giorgia Pedrana
Oana Rodica Alexandrescu
Stefania Fattori
Elisa Breda
Cristina Giacomucci
Maria Castelletto
Laura Trappetti
Stefania Zuccari
Marcella Ciarnelli
Angela Ucci
Giulia Alessio
Chiara Rizzo
Claudia Fratarcangeli
Emanuela Fippi
Paolo Petroni
Silvia Lelli
Cinzia Pennesi
Cinzia Curini
Maria Grazia Bonicelli
Riccardo Ripoli
Elisabetta Tramontano
Michele Passione
Marzia Materazzi
Elena Crivellaro
Francesca Bertelli
Giovanni Brambilla
Alessandra Politi
Fabrizio Ungaro
Roberto Carnesalli
Ornella Marcato
Costanza Buttinelli
Alessandra Sannella
Teresa Martini
Elena Rossi
Davide Galati
Eva Raffa
Franca Fois
Antonella Capetti
Alessandra Lazzarin
Luisa Mattia
Daniela Ricci
Pina Molitierno
Mauro Biani
Antonella Antonelli
Alessandra Calabrese
Alia Englen
Valentina Spallino
Antonella Salvato
Irene Marzona
Federica Gomiero
Ilaria Micheli
Elisabetta Tramacere
Raffaella Rogora
Maria Elena Tarantino
Maria Teresa Botticella
Gabriela Jacomella
Francesca Michelucci
Chiara Paparelli
Alessandra Gramolini
Rita Gamberini
Pia Avolio de Martino
Marianna Marrocchi
Ornella Sterlocchi
Giovanna Vaccaro
Flavia Adani
Denise Mazzolani
Rita D’Antuono
Luisa Altomare
Giulia Vida
Angela Sciccone
Ludovico Guarneri
Leonilde Pagano
Elena Abbiati
Salvatore Gabriele
Maria Rosaria Gioffrè
Giovanni Zito
Luca Lo Bianco
Margherita Restelli
Federico Lagna
Eleonora Lagna
Luciana Siddivò
Gualtiero Parisio
Sarah Parisio
Paola Parisio
Simone Parisio
Daniela Bellettati
Anna Pasqualina Forgione
Martina Antognoli
Francesco Mattioni
Elisabetta Cremaschi
Paola Reitano
Luigia Martino
Antonietta Cocchi
Patrizia Franchini
Anna Spera
Angela Di Tuccio
Franco Fornari
Monica Monachesi
Il richiamo del Jobél – Onlus
Paola Ferrando
Barbara Bernardini
Maria Donati
Francesco Racchetti
Alessandro Baraldi
Daniela Di Donna
Valeria Mondolo
Stefano D’Amore
Cristiana Meneghini
Letizia Sofia
Angela Famiglietti
Margherita Chiamenti
Maria Teresa Carta
Marco Augusto Silvestri
Fabrizio Calopreso
Alessandra Mapelli
Lorenza Giulia Birindelli
Cristina Accardi
Michela Villani
Costanza Pallini
Monica Melissano
Jenny Fabia Cittone
Margherita Brudetti
Alberto Saracco
Lorenzo Barcella
Susanna Mattiangeli
Peppe Amato
Loredana Pagano
Enrico Persico
Gennaro Borrelli
Gaetano Salvidio
Giuseppe Merrino
Mariella Giannangeli
Arianna Papini
Stefania Carnevale
Nazzareno Moreschi
Antonia Guarini
Giuseppe Goffredo
Federica Mattiello
Salvatore Ferraro
Manuela Picco
Floriana Lorusso
Rosaria Vendittelli
Diego Leoni
Antonietta Filisio
Sonia Spallino
Vanes Dall’Olio
Psicologi con i Migranti
Carla Visciola
Emmanuele Napoli
Daniela Redig de Campos
Giovanni Granatelli
Rosaria Montefusco
Sylvie Di Cola
Rita Fratello
Maria De Filippis
Maria Rosa Patruno
Silvia Romagnoli
Raffaella Molinari
Marco Bersani
Chiara Stentarelli
Alessandra David
Saverio Zarrelli
Nino Esposito
Liliana Ginanneschi
Giovanna Pastore
Cinzia Iorio
Anna Maso
Silvio Sampò
Daniela Gozzetti
Maria Luisa Vallauri
Brunella De Stefano
Elisabetta Di Somma
Ines Palena
Marina De Stradis
Francesco Damiano Portoghese
Camilla Siliotti
Rita Vitale
Flora Antifona
Licia Castorina
Federica Leonardi
Gaspare Bracchi
Carlotta Dazzi
Adriano de Concini
Caterina Lubrano
Sabrina Alfonsi
Jacopo Maria Emiliani Pescetelli
Tatiana Campioni
Giovanni Figà Talamanca
Emiliano Monteverde
Cinzia Guido
Anna Vincenzoni
Adriana Buffardi
Mauro Valenti
Monica Pozzi
Mirella Marzoli
Amelia Muscetta
Cinzia Becca
Emanuela Putignano
Nicoletta Marcon
Ulisse Falchieri
Alessia Brancaccio
Maria Concetta Tumeo
Rosa Salvo
Marco Gaucho Filippi
Nunzia Pinto
Cristina Guarnieri
Armando Golzio
Luca Barbato
Gabriella Bonacchi,
Antonella Soldo,
Paolo Naso,
Aldo Masullo,
Giorgina Satta
Alessandro Floris
Michele Caledda
Nadia Dibilio
Mario Badagliacca
Gianpietro Occhiofino
Andalo Carrega
Alessandro Sitta
Claudia Tamellini
Elisabetta Napoli
Eletta Cucuzza
Robert Zielonka
Massimo Pieri
Maria Grazia Loi
Stefania De Pascale
Rodolfo Canciani
Riccardo Beulcke
Maria Teresa Scupoli
Marco Ponte
Adele Cammarata
Giovanna Messina
Leonardo Dorini
Letizia Dipasquale
Nadia Crucitti
Vittorio Ondedei
Flavia Cotronei
Antonio Albanese
Altro Modo Flegreo
Cristiana Frazzitta
Anna Negri
Angelina Imondi
Marina Grazioli
Elisabetta Adami
Massimiliano Deidda
Milena Valli
Erika Maronati
Roberto Sepe
Valentina D'Ascanio
Michele Di Mauro
Stefania Bertola

Dario Pergolizzi
Valter Malosti
Mariarosa Moratti
Maurizio Acerbo
Stefano Galieni
Rosamaria Rinaldi
Rocco Rizzo
Daniela Pasquale
Piero Pezzoni
Veronica Vismara
Niccolò Ammaniti
Anna Maria Cioni
Nello Scavo
Michele Passione
Camilla Paternó
Maria Santangelo
Corinna Polimeni
Paolo Di Stefano
Omero Timoncini

Parlamentari:
Walter Verini
Riccardo Magi
Monica Cirinnà