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In the municipality of Lampedusa, a small protest is being carried out with about ten people to call for a general strike threatened by Mayor Totò Martello, to draw the attention of the government on the management of migrants. The mayor is discussing this with representatives of local businessmen and merchants.
Some banners were displayed with the words “Stop Immigrants”, “Lampedusa Access Point Closed” and “Criminal Government”. Among the protesters also Attilio Lucía, coordinator of the League on the island: “If the mayor cannot really go on strike, he will resign,” he explains. Otherwise, we will occupy the Municipality today.
We want the hotspot to be cleared immediately. “
Among the banners, there are also references to the mayor and former director of the island’s clinic and to MEP Pietro Bartolo: “Mayor resigns” and “Pietro Bartolo you sold yourself Lampedusa.”
Meanwhile, 307 migrants left the Lampedusa hotspot between last night and this morning, where there are still 1,219 people. Last night 87 non-EU citizens boarded the Coast Guard and Guardia di Finanza patrol boats that have already arrived in Porto Empedocle. 55 of them have already been put on a bus that takes them to the reception centers in Abruzzo. The rest will remain in Sicilian structures. Instead, the Coast Guard patrol boat Dattil has already completed boarding another 220 migrants from the access point. As we learned, her destination would be the port of Ragusa de Pozzallo.
After the maxi landing on Saturday night of the fishing boat that left Libya, with 370 people on board, mainly from Bangladesh and Senegal, there were no more sightings or autonomous landings. There is rough seas and strong winds, especially in the Sicilian Channel. Therefore, prohibitive conditions that a couple of weeks ago had registered the same situation.
meLampedusa Mayor Totò Martello announced that he had been summoned, together with the president of the Sicilian Region, by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in Rome on Wednesday.
Martello announced it at the end of the meeting with some businessmen, local merchants and citizens, about the general strike threatened yesterday by the mayor. “The strike has been postponed,” he added, “pending the answers that Roma will arrive.” Martello continued: “There are some things that the Sicilian Region must do towards the people of Lampedusa and others that must be done from Rome. As soon as the measures are taken, Conte will also come to Lampedusa. May the government summon us, given the emergency in Lampedusa is a concrete fact ”.
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