Malta’s prime minister Joseph Muscat and Italy’s home affairs minister Matteo Salvini pandered to populist sentiment while 629 human beings were stranded at sea on the vessel Aquarius. For both, political posturing came before human life. Cartoon by Seb Tanti Burlo.
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