They are overall 532 migrants arrived in Lampedusa during the night (Agrigento). The first cart of the sea with 56 people on board, including 27 women and 4 minors, landed around midnight. Shortly after the men of the Harbor Master’s Office and the Finance Police they intercepted a boat with 85 migrants. Around 3.30 a third landing, which brought 185 people to the island, including two women and three children. After an hour, another 112 migrants, all men, reached the largest of the Pelagias. The latest landing brought 94 migrants to the island, including two women and a girl. All, after a first health triage, have been conducted in the hotspot of the Imbriacola district, where there are currently around 570 guests.
The situation is worsening throughout the Mediterranean, where a little over a week ago 130 shipwrecked people drowned and waited in vain for help. Second Alarm Phone beyond 200 people are in danger right now of life at sea and ask for help: «Last night 125 people in danger on a rubber dinghy called us. They were asking for help but we did not receive an accurate GPS position. We have alerted all the authorities and urgent research required»Writes the independent migrant support service in a first tweet. And then he adds in another: «A second boat with 105 people is in danger in the Sar area of Malta! People have said that they have been at sea for three days and that their engine is not working ».
He intervened on the emergency Matteo Salvini demanding that the landings be stopped: “We have written to President Draghi and to the ministries of health and the interior: in addition to controlling who arrives by plane from countries at risk, between Covid and variants, it is also necessary block small boats and barges out of respect for the Italians, their sacrifices, their health, their safety. Can’t you do anything? False. In one year I have reduced landings by 80% and I am undergoing two trials for defending the borders. And with fewer departures, there are also fewer deaths. Will is power »writes the Northern League secretary on Facebook.
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