The following video shows excerpts from a TV appearance by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, juxtaposing them with a Catholic cardinal’s remarks about migrants, and an account of the Nigerian mafiosi in Italy who traffic in human body parts.

WARNING: Parts of this clip describe the actions of the Nigerian organ-harvesters in terms that sensitive viewers may find disturbing.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript (times based on original uncut clip):

04:15 Your eminence, Matteo Salvini swears on the rosary, on the Gospel.

04:20 Is this enough for him to be a Catholic leader?

04:24 Well, I don’t have the [unintelligible] how to say, the way to measure, that is, the way to measure

04:28 the faith of a person. And therefore, if he

04:32 takes these attitudes, he will do so with an inner faith

04:36 that I don’t judge, but this isn’t enough.

04:40 But hasn’t your position on accepting immigrants caused you to lose harmony with public opinion?

04:46 Well, the gospel says, “I was a (stranger), and you welcomed me.”

04:50 How can I not say I welcome?

04:54 How can I not say, after having welcomed a migrant

04:58 integrate him, do everything I can,

05:02 and also, culturally, try to form him?

05:07 Because if one comes to live here and has the intention to stay,

05:12 it’s clear that he should enter into the culture.

05:15 He should follow a path, and we should also have the patience to help them,

05:20 to integrate them. And if there is a boat in the middle of the sea,

05:25 who takes the responsibility to let it sink?

05:33 How do you respond, Matteo Salvini, to Cardinal Bassetti?

05:36 Look, I am the last of the good Catholics, I won’t allow myself to judge or give moral lessons.

05:42 In addition, since divorcing, I haven’t confessed or taken communion for 15 years.

05:46 The rosary [unintelligible] you carry a rosary, right?

05:49 Uh, I have the joy when I travel in Italy, I travel often.

05:52 Sunday evening, I will be in Avezzano, Sulmona, and then Monday in Rome —

05:56 I meet so many people, so many women, so many men who bring me

06:00 a rosary, they bring me a small image, they bring me an altar candle

06:04 Also so many people in church because there is no “the church”.

06:08 There is, of course, the church (hierarchy), bishops, but the church is an infinite number

06:11 of parishes, of volunteer associations, youth groups, missionaries,

06:16 …friars, nuns. Therefore, there are so many things

06:20 In the church, and to some, I will be nicer; to someone else, I will be less nice.

06:24 Nobody will ever cause any ship to sink, if the cardinal will permit me to whisper,

06:30 to Cardinal Bassetti, that those boats…

06:34 those poor people put in those boats are transformed into money that the smugglers

06:38 invest in arms and drugs, and I don’t believe that it is generous

06:43 Christian solidarity and welcome to help smugglers of men, arms and drugs.

06:48 Another discussion is there are five million legal immigrants who are currently present in Italy,

06:51 well integrated, who are possibly watching us — who send their children to school, pay taxes,

06:55 respect the rules. They could be Christians, Muslims, Jews,

06:59 Buddhists, Waldensians, Protestants. But it’s not that. The problem is numbers. There are limits.

07:04 [Unintelligible] says, “I’m an immigrant. Take me in.”

07:07 My friends, we are sixty million (people). There are five million poor,

07:11 three million unemployed, one million Italian minors who live under the poverty line.

07:16 How many can we take in? One thousand, two thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand,

07:19 one hundred million? We are not there.

11:32 They take hearts, liver, and kidneys

11:36 After they have taken the types of organs, those that they need,

11:41 these people are always cut into pieces.

11:44 There is always a need for organs. There is always a need for drugs.

11:49 There is always a need for prostitutes.

11:54 This is the Nigerian mafia, a mafia capable of the most horrific violence

11:58 the fifth in Italy in terms of (strength) and spread.

12:04 And this is a collaborator with justice, an ex-member of “Eye”.

12:07 Eye would be in English, “Eye”. The eyes.

12:11 The eyes of the eagles that watch everything.

12:14 The former member has been a witness in the most [unintelligible]

12:18 all the organizations in northern Italy.

12:21 This type of blade is called the “secret arm”.

12:24 That is a very very dangerous secret arm,

12:28 and the major part of this fraternity have this thing in their hand or pocket.

12:33 If you are not careful, they’ll cut you in the face or they’ll cut your throat or in some part.

12:44 I’ve seen a courier, he had just arrived, was weak.

12:48 We transported him from Malesia to Palermo.

12:51 He wasn’t able to pass the (ingested balloons containing drugs).

12:55 The only way to make him disappear was to cut him in pieces and then to recover the drugs.

13:01 There are groups also within the same fraternity

13:05 That are involved in peoples’ organs.

13:08 They try to get close to these people, to become friends.

13:12 Then (these people) disappear —And who is it that extracts the organs, doctors?

13:16 There are African doctors who arrive on the ships —Who are the victims?

13:22 Some young men and women have problems with (their) documents, some also because of hunger.

13:27 How much do they sell a kidney for? Five thousand euros, some also free for a residence permit

13:33 There are so many victims of these things,

13:36 women, children, this is very easy. There is an organization that buys these children.

13:41 They raise these children and in the end sell them for the organs.

13:45 Which organs are taken? They take the heart, liver, and kidneys

13:51 It’s the money… that they care about.

14:31 60,000 Nigerians have arrived in the last three years, from one of the countries

14:35 with which it is most difficult to work with on expulsions.

14:38 We are working day and night. This is the first year after many years

14:42 that there are more expulsions than those who arrive

14:45 So we have reversed the trend. The (police) from north to south are working

14:49 on the Nigerian mafia. They have conducted very beautiful operations

14:52 in Sardinia, in Tuscany and in Lombardy.

14:55 And it is this out-of-control immigration that I am trying to —

14:59 I don’t say eliminate… limit… to combat

15:05 connections to drugs, trafficking of organs. They are things that are incredible to listen to.

15:10 Nigeria is one of the countries — on the other hand is one of the richest countries in raw material,

15:14 but it is also richer in the export of human beings,

15:18 more restrictive in accepting human beings.

15:21 Why is Europe important? I talked to the European Commission, because Europe has

15:24 commercial agreements with so many of these countries. I requested of them

15:28 that we should not renew or renegotiate if there is no willingness