Since the Yugoslav civil war Italy does nothing but shoveling illegal migrants to northern Europe, then most prominent Albanians.
It were the Italians, and other Club Med member who thought to incorporate the whole Mediterranean, North-Africa, the Levant into the European Union, free travel of people, check the Euro-Med initiative.
Italy is a people trafficker:
Operation Mare Nostrum was a year-long naval and air operation commenced by the Italian government on October 18, 2013 to tackle the increased immigration to Europe
The operation's search and rescue component is claimed by advocacy groups like the European Council on Refugees and Exiles to have saved thousands of lives, but the operation was politically unpopular and extremely costly for just one EU state.[6] The Italian government had requested additional funds in order to continue the operation, from the other EU member states, but they did not offer the requested support.[7]
Although the op – which has saved over 150,000 people – is being shelved, Italy said it will abide by the laws of the sea under which ships that spot migrants in trouble are obliged to rescue them.
Italy did not take a single migrant they “saved”, all left to the northern xenophobes “who did invite the migrants to Europe”.
Merkel is a vile hag, but it were Italian planes bombing Libya, not Germans:
15 March 2011: A resolution for a no-fly zone was proposed
The five abstentions were: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Germany.
Germany has withdrawn all forces from NATO operations in the Mediterranean Sea as its government decided not to take part in any military operations against Libya.
Berlusconi was still in charge when Libya was attacked, he left office after everything was done in October.
the initial coalition of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, Qatar, Spain, UK and US
Italy: At the beginning of the operation, as a contribution to enforce the no-fly zone, the Italian government committed four Tornado ECRs of the Italian Air Force in SEAD operations, supported by two Tornado IDS variants in an air-to-air refueling role and four F-16 ADF fighters as escort.[112] After the transfer of authority to NATO and the decision to participate in strike air-ground operations, the Italian government increased the Italian contribution by adding four Italian Navy AV-8B plus (from Giuseppe Garibaldi), four Italian Air Force Eurofighters, four Tornado IDSs under NATO command. Other assets under national command participated in air patrolling and air refueling missions.[113] As of 24 March, the Italian Navy was engaged in Operation Unified Protector with the light aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Maestrale-class frigate Libeccio and the auxiliary ship Etna.[114] Additionally, the Orizzonte-class destroyer Andrea Doria and Maestrale-class frigate Euro were patrolling off the Sicilian coast in an air-defence role.[115][116] At a later stage, Italy increased its contribution to the NATO led mission by doubling the number of AV-8B Harriers and deploying an undisclosed number of AMX fighter-bombers and KC-130J and KC-767A tanker planes. The Italian Air Force also deployed its MQ-9A Reaper UAVs for real time video reconnaissance.[117]
Exactly, they waved the through and were very bussy to help them over the sea.