To applause and with an auditorium full of Italian pennants, Giorgia Meloni is grateful for the warm welcome they have given him at the Galileo Galilei school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “Thanks for the welcomethank you for the welcome”, the president of the ultra-right party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) begins her speech.

A reception that your government does not apply to those who come to its shores from the African continent.

The impudence goes to more in some videos that are part of the compact that the prime minister’s team has shared: in the patio, the children give her a little walk and some even throw themselves into hugging her. However, the harshest criticisms are directed at a photo: Meloni, eyes closed, hugs three smiling children.

For the activist Djarah Kan, in that image, Meloni is “unintentionally racist“, and ironically in an Instagram post that there is nothing wrong with taking a photo with someone who will drown in the Mediterranean in the future.”

Their political rivals have also been tough with the snapshot. Angelo Bonelli, from Los Verdes, criticizes the posados ​​”with those to whom he denies rights.”

Meloni traveled to Ethiopia as part of a strategy that seeks to stop migration at the source and, most bloody, just 48 hours after approving the immigration state of emergency in Italy. A state of emergency that also seeks to stop the massive entry of migrants along its coasts.

In other words, your government may suspend regulations of the current legal system and expedite the procedures that are carried out upon arrival and reception. Also removal proceedings.