The landings of migrants in Lampedusa do not stop, where there is a continuous flow of arrivals. At the moment, there have been 30 landings on the island since last night where 703 people have arrived. A number that triggered the emergency for reception and overcrowding for the hotspot that hosts just over 931 people compared to the 350 planned and after 300 were transferred, today, from the center of the Imbricola district to Porto Empedocles with the Veronese ferry. The emergency numbers that could be destined to go up because there seem to have been other sightings. The Prefecture of Agrigento would be preparing a new plan to lighten the structure. To arrive on the island of the Pelagie are mainly small boats, carrying mainly men, but also women and children, some very small, set sail from Zuara, in Libya, or from the seaside towns of Tunisia of Sidimansour, Zarzis, Kerkenna and Makdia. Some boats were intercepted or rescued while they were adrift by naval means of the Guardia di Finanza and the harbor master’s office. Others arrived as far as Lampedusa, landing directly in the port or at the Favaloro and Madonnina docks. Another 342 landed in Sicily: in Pantelleria. They were intercepted by the Coast Guard and by the police near the coasts. They are hosted on the island waiting to be transferred to Trapani. In Messina, at the Nuremberg pier, the Open Arms Uno ship docked with 99 migrants on board, including some minors, who had been rescued in recent days in the Sicilian channel. “After 9 days of waiting they will finally be able to touch the ground – writes the NGO on Facebook – we wish them a future of peace and freedom”. The landings of migrants also continue in the Port of Roccella Ionica, in Locride. 82 refugees, of various nationalities, arrived just before dawn following a sea rescue operation carried out off the Calabrian coast by Coast Guard soldiers. A boat carrying about a hundred migrants is about to arrive at the port of Gallipoli. It is the second landing today in Salento, after the over people who arrived in Castrignano del Capo during the night. According to the Tap agency, which cites a regional source of the National Guard, “units of the Tunisian coast guard have foiled 23 attempts at irregular emigration off Mahdia, Sfax and Kerkennah in the last 24 hours, intercepting and rescuing 530 irregular migrants”. Rescue in the Mediterranean sea by Ogn ships continues: Ocean Viking has saved 112 people in two interventions today. There are now 387 shipwrecked on board, including a three-week-old baby. On the Geo Barentes, at the moment, there are eleven men, he writes on the social media Doctors Without Borders, “fled from their countries of origin and from the inhumane conditions in Libya”. And the political controversies do not stop either. Matteo Salvini, from Barletta, reiterates: “in Italy governed by the League, those who are allowed to enter enter” and “the others return from where they came”, because, he argues, “we cannot maintain half the world with so many people in difficulty “.
Source: Ansa
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