arrivals immigrants to Italy with the Mediterranean increase. More than 2,000 migrants have landed in the last 24 hours alone. with lampisland in the extreme south It is only a hundred kilometers from Tunisia in a straight line. According to the data of the Italian Ministry of Interior, biggest arrival Added to the more than 20,000 migrants arriving via the central Mediterranean since March so far and the beginning of the year, the number of arrivals triples in 2022 (around 6,500).
The situation turned the Lampedusa identity center upside down. More than 1,800 people were staying at the nearly 400-person center this Saturday morning, after multiple rescue efforts by humanitarian boats and Italian law enforcement, including the Coast Guard, Guardia de Finance and Carabineros.
Others reached the Italian island autonomously, that is, without being caught by anyone at sea. And add some 550 immigrants landed in the last hours calabria (also in the south) and still in unspecified numbers dead immigrants In a shipwreck off Malta. According to preliminary information, large numbers of immigrants would have entered Tunisia.
Libya threats
In addition, the Emergency ship ‘Life Support’ reported the rescue of 83 more people who had been dragged on the boats for a day in “extreme conditions” this afternoon. “The people we rescued were already wearing them. three days at seawithout eating and drinking in a crouched position‘, said Alberto Radaelli, the liberator from ‘Life Support’.
Meanwhile, the ‘Ocean Viking’ ship You are the Mediterranean He claimed to be his crew. Threatened by the Libyan coast guard this morning armed forces in international waters. “Boat 656 approached us and its crew aerial shots”, defended the NGO in the area after receiving a notice of a rubber boat in distress. Because of this situation, the ‘Ocean Viking’ left the area.