Freed fishermen, the Medinea commander sails to Mazara: “We want to work, not war”

“Our jailers,” explains Marrone, “didn’t want us to look them in the eye, otherwise they would have put their heads in the bidet.” The commander also said that the sailors used to cook for the jailers and had to serve them food, always with the prohibition of looking at their faces. Finally, Marrone said that he shared two cells, along with his companions, with other foreign inmates.

The health plan for the return – Upon arriving at the port of Mazara, a doctor will board the fishing boats and visit the sailors, who once ashore will carry out the buffer fast and then molecular. In the absence of positive Covid, everyone will go home and have to repeat the swab after five days. In the new port, where the two boats will disembark, there will be a limited number of relatives and journalists, explains Mayor Salvatore Quinci.

The two Senegalese sailors, who are homeless, will be accommodated in a hotel at the owner’s expense, provided that the swab gives a negative result. Senegalese often work as ship keepers and sleep on board. In case of positivity, even for a single sailor, everyone will get into a vehicle with biocontainment devices and placed in home quarantine. For Senegalese, however, always in case of a positive result, a transfer to a Covid hotel is provided. Meanwhile, the mayor reiterates that by Sunday Access to the new port will be prohibited for everyone., except authorized persons.

The yellow of the exchange – An Arab newspaper published in London and close to General Haftar’s positions speaks of a promise to release the sailors, including 8 Italians, in exchange for the repatriation of some smugglers arrested in Italy. Meanwhile, Forza Italia senator Maurizio Gasparri has addressed an urgent question to the government, while the reconstruction of the newspaper is flatly rejected by our intelligence. Copasir, the parliamentary commission that oversees the work of our secret services, will deal with the release of the fishermen next Tuesday. The four Libyan smugglers jailed in Sicily are awaiting trial in the Supreme Court. In the second degree they were sentenced to twenty to thirty years in prison.