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Landings in bursts, fierce protests on the island and the municipality ready for a general strike against “government silence.” The Ministry of the Interior finally strikes a coup and at night announces the dispatch of another three ships to Lampedusa for the quarantine of migrants. The situation on the island, where the reception center is collapsing, remains worrying.
“In recent days, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Minister Luciana Lamorgese have decided to use three more boats, in addition to the two that are already in operation, for health surveillance of arriving irregular migrants.” This is stated in a note from the Ministry of the Interior. The first vessel, identified with an emergency procedure initiated by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, according to the Ministry of the Interior, “will arrive in Lampedusa tomorrow night. The two additional vessels will be operational no later than next Wednesday, at the latest. end of the bidding procedure launched last Friday that foresees, tomorrow, at 10 am, the deadline for the presentation of the relative acts and the awarding of the tender on the same day ”.
To reduce the overcrowding of the Lampedusa hotspot, the Coast Guard ship Dattil will arrive on the island overnight and embark 200 migrants tomorrow morning. The Agrigento prefecture has already ordered the transfer of 128 immigrants this afternoon with the patrol boats of the Guardia di Finanza and the Coast Guard, after the negative result of the hyssop.
The other three quarantine ships will arrive between tomorrow and Wednesday, to transfer some 300 of the migrants who come to the hotspot to land, but the situation remains critical. A ship carrying 450 refugees on board arrived on Saturday night. The maxi boarding, which adds to the arrival of another 500 migrants aboard about thirty small boats the day before, triggered a new emergency.
A delegation of residents, together with Lega Senator Angela Maraventano, tried to prevent emergency vehicles from passing through the dock. Also concerned is the mayor of Lampedusa, Totò Martello, who sent a letter to Tunisian President Kais Saied threatening to reach Tunisia with his ship following the migration route in reverse.
The protests were also joined by Sicilian Governor Nello Musumeci, who spoke of a “humanitarian emergency” and wrote to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte “to request an urgent meeting of the Council of Ministers, in which I have the right to participate, when it comes to issues related to my island. ”“ I ask the prime minister for urgent and adequate interventions, ”attacks the president of the Region, the protagonist in recent days of a tough confrontation with the government that culminated in an ordinance, later successfully challenged by the executive before the TAR, with which he intended to expel the migrants from the island. “We must give a strong signal to eliminate the conviction that Sicily has only become a problem for Rome – he concludes -. We ask Rome to he will make up the lost months without any planning ”.
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