Migrants, maxi landing in the night in Lampedusa: 156 arrived

The truce in Lampedusa on the landings front lasted just 24 hours. Due to bad weather conditions, in fact, yesterday there were no landings in the largest of the Pelagias. During the night, however, 156 migrants arrived at the Favaloro pier. Among them also a woman and 13 accompanied minors. The landing operations continued until about 1.30 am. For all, after an initial health triage, the transfer to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district was arranged. The last arrivals on the island before those of the night date back to last Friday, when a small boat with 12 Tunisians, all men, was intercepted. Lamorgese: “Management difficulties dictated by aggravation of surveillance procedures” “The moment of crisis of the lockdown has led to a rebellion that we have seen in various cities: the issue of the restriction of circulation due to Covid has many times been compared to the migratory phenomenon. to a certain extent underline the reverse discrimination of citizens with respect to migrant foreigners. I do not think this reading of the facts gives due recognition to the efforts we have made to manage reception, having to combine them with the need for prophylaxis imposed to protect everyone’s health “. The Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese said at the forum in Cernobbio. “It has never been stressed enough how the increase in the arrival of migrants is the result of the pandemic crisis which has hit the North African countries with extreme violence – continues the head of the Interior Ministry – and the migratory thrust has grown as a result of the socio-economic depression that has hit some territories such as Libya, Tunisia, Algeria which, the latter two, had enjoyed a certain stability after the uprisings of the Arab Spring. of the management of the phenomenon, in my opinion, are not so much dictated by the growth in numbers as by the aggravation of the procedures determined by the needs of surveillance, health supervision of migrants, always observed “.” We must not forget the situation of serious instability in Libya which does not has died out and a postponement of the elections scheduled for the end of the year could represent the resumption of tensions and the passage of one Libya divided into two factions, in two zones of influence, Turkey on one side and Russia on the other. The prospects for Tunisia are also worrying – concludes Lamorgese – there is the risk of a concrete collapse. Precisely for this reason Europe must be present, at the moment it has not given great proof. We need a great economic plan that must concern these countries, because it is an important game to intervene in the countries of North Africa: immigration is now a structural problem. Further concerns are raised by the claims of ISIS to regain the ground lost in recent years “.