The figures reflect the dimension of what is happening in Lampedusawhere migrant landings are incessant: in the last 24 hours, almost 7,000 people disembarked on the last piece of land he has Italyarriving more people per day than the total number of inhabitants of the small Sicilian island of Lampedusawhich has 6,000 residents.
In this context of collapse and of difficult managementthe mayor of the island, Filippo Manninohas spent two days without closing his eyes assisting babies, children, pregnant women and men in primary operational structures to contain this large number of people: “We are tired”stated today and decreed “State of emergency” in Lampedusa.
The parish priest: “The Apocalypse, a tragic situation”
The situation in Lampedusa is “tragic, dramatic, apocalyptic”This was stated by the island’s parish priest, Don Carmelo Rizzodue to the enormous numbers of people daily who cross the Mediterranean.
The priest opened the doors of his church to provide water and food to those arriving from Africa because the system is collapsed and there is no capacity to assist the fleet of ships that dock daily. “The Red Cross has suppliesbut if these impressive numbers arrive with an average of 3,400 a day, and they even fight among themselves for water, we are all on alert”said the dismayed bishop.
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Meloni: stop the games
The situation is explosivewith a boom in landings in a few hours that puts the strategy of the far-right government of the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni before the serious migrant crisis.
“The question is not how to solve the problem once they have already crossed the Mediterraneanbut stop arrivals to Italy with concrete answers in the place from which they start”, thus the Premier Meloni referred to Europe asking for help and intervention to prevent ships from setting sail and departing from Africa.
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Salvini: “The last landings are an act of war, there is an organization behind”
“When 120 ships arrive at once, it is not a spontaneous episode, but an act of war. For Italian society this is a collapseit is not just a problem of Lampedusa“, thus responded the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the League, Matteo Salviniwhen asked about the latest landings in Sicily. And he added: “I am convinced that there is a organization behind this exodus. We will talk about this calmly within the Italian government, intelligence is already investigating on the spot, but We cannot continue to attend other similar scenes like these.“concluded the leader of the Italian extreme right.
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Lampedusa became a case of government with absolute landing record so far this year: more than 9,200 ships docked on the island carrying on board approximately 124 thousand immigrants coming mostly from Sub-Saharan Africasome of the migrants are unaccompanied minorsthey flee from hungerothers from extreme events resulting from climate change like floods in Libyaearthquakes in Moroccoand others from political causes such as coups in Nigeria, civil war in Sudanetc.
Faced with a situation that is predicted to evolve severely, the Italian government proclaims to the European Union who must take care of Africa.
Source: Ambito
