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AGI – A ship with 450 migrants on board landed last night in the port of Lampedusa. It is an old fishing boat, which was sighted by the Coast Guard and Financial Police patrol boats and escorted to the dock. On the island the situation was already very difficult, with thousand people packed into the hotspot: approximately ten times the rated capacity of the structure.
The position of the president of the Sicilian Region, Nello Musumeci, is clear: “Another landing of 450 men in Lampedusa, but nobody has seen anything! We had asked Rome to make up for lost months, without any programming. We had requested an airlift to garrison the Strait of Sicily to prevent these sordid merchants of death from continuing undisturbed. I speak directly to President Conte. Lampedusa can’t take it anymore. Sicily cannot continue to pay for the indifference of Brussels and the silence of Rome. “
“There is a humanitarian emergency – continues Musumeci – and a health emergency. The numbers say it. The facts say so. And it’s not enough to defy an ordinance to deny reality. It is time to make firm decisions. President Conte, will convene the Council of Ministers to address the emergency of recent months, which has become unbearable in these hours. I ask this as president of a Region that, as established by the Statute, has the right to participate in the Council when it comes to decisions related to my Island. I ask with respect, but firmly. Don’t force the Lampedusans to strike and shutdown. It is a wonderful place, that: it does not deserve this treatment! “.
