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Italy saved more than a thousand this Friday immigrants who traveled on various barges drifting across the Mediterranean, with an impressive device that even the navy had to intervene in order not to survive the tragic shipwreck of two weeks ago.
The situation was especially frantic in the Strait of Sicily and off the island of Lampedusa and off the coast of Calabria (south of the Italian peninsula), where a barge from Turkey sank on February 26, killing at least 73 people.
Coast Guard Mr. Italy He deployed a strong detachment with five patrol boats, three ships and an aircraft, and was even forced to ask for the intervention of the Navy, which sent a ship.
Thousands of immigrants ‘at risk’
The waters of Ionio, washing the shores of Sicily, Albania and Italy southern and western Greece were today the scene of feverish operations in response to “multiple calls for help” from barges attempting to reach Italian territory.
Among them is a ship with about 500 immigrants on board about 70 miles south of Crotone (about 112 km), which was captured by three Italian Coast Guard vessels.
Other funds helped two other boats with about 800 immigrants on board, which are about 100 miles (about 160 kilometers) south of the city of Roccella Ionica, in the Italian “toe of the boot.”
The Coast Guard noted that the day “was particularly challenging due to the large number of people aboard the boats” and that “they will continue for the next several hours” with the intervention of two other vessels and an ATR surveillance aircraft.
The wave that doesn’t stop at Lampedusa
On the other hand, the tiny island of Lampedusa, the southernmost Italian enclave and gateway to Europe for immigrants sailing from North Africa, has also experienced a day of incessant arrivals that have filled its already unreliable reception center.
Over 3000 in total immigrants They are overcrowded at their facilities of just 300 posts following a wave of landings in recent days.
The head of the Lampedusa Medical Center, Francesco D’Arca, assured RAI public television that “they work day and night” and that “such a stream of incoming immigrants has never been recorded”, especially many pregnant women and minors alone. .
Suffice it to think that just yesterday, Thursday, 41 barges since 1869 immigrantsto which we must add the hundreds of immigrants who manage to reach Lampedusa by their own means.
Coast Guard ship Diciotti Italy was found at sea today with 480 immigrants during a trip to Lampedusa to clean up their reception center and take care of them.
Italian Coast Guard rescues migrants off Lampedusa | Fountain: AFP
immigrants Vessels have arrived these days from Chad, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Gambia, and according to media reports, most of the boats have gone since the Tunisian city of Sfax.
Italy against traffickers
Given this scenario, the government Italypresided over by far-right Georgia Meloni, last night approved a decree law that would increase penalties for those deemed “human traffickers,” those responsible for operating barges on behalf of criminal organizations on land.
If they are caught now, they can be sentenced to 30 years in prison, while before the punishment was a maximum of 5 years.
The goal is to fight the human trafficking mafia and prevent future shipwrecks like the one that happened two weeks ago in Croton, which resulted in a new victim today, a child, bringing the death toll to 73 as search work continues.
(As reported by EFE)
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