Maxi landing in Lampedusa, Agrigento prosecutor’s office opens investigation

The maxi landing which took place at dawn today in Lampedusa, with over 500 people on board, ends in the Prosecutor’s Office. The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Agrigento, led by Luigi Patronaggio, has opened an investigation. Investigators try to understand if behind the trip, with hundreds of people crammed into the hold, there is an organization. The migrants, almost all men, had been held for weeks in detention camps in Libya. And many have suffered torture and violence of all kinds. Today over 600 migrants have landed on the largest of the Pelagie. In fact, five other mini landings have been added to the maxi landing. For all migrants, the transfer to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district has been arranged, where, with a capacity of 250 places, there are about a thousand left. “Here is chaos. While Sicily will be in the yellow zone from Monday and new sacrifices are imposed on citizens, Lampedusa has been landing for hours. Hundreds and hundreds crammed into boats and small boats. A real invasion in the middle of a pandemic” says Attilio Lucia, city commissioner of the Lega in Lampedusa, who filmed yet another landing with his mobile phone. “Only the last one today is a continuous coming and going with the forces of order now exhausted – he tells Adnkronos -. It has been going on like this for months. In general silence. Minister Lamorgese? He has shown all his inability to manage of the phenomenon, but Letta says it can’t be touched. A shame. “Tortured with a hot iron on the thigh, burned with cigarettes all over the body, and with a bullet in the stomach. These are just some of the tragic stories collected this morning by the anesthetist Alessandro Trainito, who has been in Lampedusa for a month, following the landings of migrants for Doctors Without Borders. The migrants of the maxi landing were almost all male, young, from sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa, but also from Bangladesh, Yemen, Palestine, Syria. All arrived from Libya. Where before leaving they were detained and suffered violence of all kinds. “They were recovered from a large boat and transferred to the Molo Favaloro – says the MSF anesthetist – this group said they had suffered mistreatment of various kinds. Real torture. And there were the obvious signs. A boy had a bad wound on his thigh, and he told us he was tortured with a hot iron. ” “The wound was healing – says Trainito – but it was infected. So it must be treated immediately. On other young boys there were signs of gunshots, both old and new. One had a bullet in the abdomen, another. they shot twenty days ago “. “Then there was a handful of boys from Bangladesh who had no obvious bodily marks, but they told us they were mistreated. Some had cigarette burn marks on their bodies.” And then there are those who had swollen and infected feet. “Because they put objects in his foot,” explains the doctor. Others had “beating scars”.