Italy rescues more than 1,400 people in 24 hours in a new wave of migrants

by time news

And ship carrying 487 immigrantsthe majority of them men from Afghanistan, was helped during the night off the coast of Calabria by the Coast Guard and docked in the port of Crotone, while the patrol boat Dattilo with 584 other people also arrived at the port of Reggio Calabria during the day rescued in the early morning.

Y another 379 were rescued by two other Coast Guard patrol boats and then transferred aboard the Sirio de la Marina ship that is heading to the Sicilian port of Augusta, they reported in a statement. These massive rescues take place during a new wave of arrivals on the Italian coasts in which nearly 4,000 migrants have arrived in the last four days.

The far-right government increases the penalty

Particularly worrying is the situation on the island of Lampedusa, a few miles off the North African coast, and where they are crowded close to 2,700 migrants in the small reception center with a capacity for about 300 people and some of them will only be able to move in the next few days. In Cutro, around 5,000 people, including many representatives of humanitarian associations, demonstrated under the slogan “Stop the massacre immediately” to protest the deaths of migrants.

At the demonstration, which opened with the cross made from the wood of the boat that broke and sank on the beach of Steccato de Cutro, many journalists also exhibited an accreditation pass that had belonged to theAfghan journalist Amarkhel Torpekai who died in the shipwreck in his attempt to flee the Taliban regime established in the country.

Faced with this scenario, the Italian government, chaired by the far-right Giorgia Meloni, approved a decree law thatIt will increase the penalties for those considered “traffickers”, those in charge of driving the barges under the orders of criminal organizations on land. If they are caught now, they could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison, while before the penalty was a maximum of 5 years.

Some Opposition politicians strongly criticized the images of Giorgia Meloni and the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, who this Friday during the 50th birthday party of the League leader sang karaoke together, despite the fact that bodies continue to be found from the shipwreck of February 26 off the coast of calabria

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