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The police mediators used in the kidnappings needed the help of a refugee center in Rome, where immigrants who were quarantined by a coronavirus epidemic held farm workers hostage.
For several hours, there was unsuccessful coordination between the police and the immigrants barricaded in the field offices, who had taken Italian employees of the center hostage. Finally, the women were released first.
The tension was triggered by the fact that the refugees underwent a coronavirus test, which came back negative, but were unable to leave the center. They were told that they could not leave the camp outside Rome during the official quarantine. This was offended by immigrants. “If we cannot leave the camp, those who work here cannot leave either,” they stressed.
According to the newspaper Il Giornale, there are already about seventy quarantine centers in the country for migrants under health surveillance. There are no official figures on the number of Covid-19 patients among the more than 20,000 immigrants who have arrived since the beginning of the year. According to the newspaper, most of the patients were tested on a quarantine ship called Rhapsody: in the last group of 800 refugees, almost 90 tested positive.
Quarantined immigrants are often placed in tents or containers. Blinks are common, the most recent being on Wednesday at the Siculiana camp in Sicily, where the refugees first clashed with each other and then attacked the police officers monitoring the camp. Half a thousand of the migrants housed in the old hotel building had already fled at the end of September, but the migrants who wanted to leave also protested several times in the Siculiana quarantine camp during the summer.
Meanwhile, the Italian Coast Guard reported that a ship carrying approximately twenty had crashed into the sea thirty miles from Lampedusa. Fifteen people were rescued from the water by the crew of a Sicilian fishing boat and the mother of two young children disappeared. Survivors were immediately screened for coronavirus upon landing, two were found to be infected, and all were quarantined.
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