A 4-year-old girl from Tunisia landed alone, without her family, on the island of Lampedusa (southern Italy), whose reception center is overcrowded, has tripled its capacity due to the fact that their number has increased in recent hours. the arrival of migrants.
The little girl separated from her parents. migrants and his 7 year old sister on the beach, just before boarding this Tuesday for Italywhen there were moments of panic and the boat left without everyone on board, according to Save The Children in Lampedusa, the NGO that took care of it.
The NGO team on the island immediately guaranteed the girl help and support. migrant “Welcoming, listening and responding to their needs and quickly reporting the case to the competent authorities,” said its spokesman, Giovanni Di Benedetto.
“We consider it important that she be accepted immediately to guarantee her protection and safety and that the necessary steps be taken immediately to facilitate her reunification with her family,” he added.
small migrantaccompanied by a social worker, was transferred this morning to Porto Empedocle, where the juvenile department of the police department will take care of her transfer to a special center, according to local media.
Migrants live in dangerous conditions
The boat, in which the little girl traveled along with 70 other migrants, was rescued by the Coast Guard. Italy a few miles from the coast, where in the past few hours another 200 people have arrived in four boats that were sailing in very dangerous conditions.
At night, the members of the Financial Guard were the ones who saved migrantsmostly men, but also some women and many unaccompanied minors, from Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Cameroon, Gambia, Mali, Sierra Leone and Sudan.
They were all transferred to the Lampedusa Reception Center, which has about a thousand people, three times its capacity of 350 people, after nine more landings were registered on Tuesday.
Italy recorded a significant increase in the number of arrivals from migrants across the Mediterranean: more than 75,000 people landed in Italy so far this year, compared to 50,000 who did so last year on these dates, and 26,000 in 2020, according to the latest figures from the Home Office.
(As reported by EFE)
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