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With the help of quarantine vessels, the Lampedusa It had been emptied, but it only took a few hours to fill it. As soon as the migrants were brought aboard the ferries, the weather and sea conditions improved and so on in the main of the Pelagie Islands, the landings. Last night, after another landing, the citizens of Lampedusa flocked to the pier to protest, to express the greatest disagreement with a situation that is no longer sustainable for the island. For hours the citizens of Lampedusa were in the port, peacefully, thus requesting the attention of a government that seems incapable of definitively solving what, from a problem, is becoming a drama for the island.
[[1888645]]And so, since yesterday, the hotspot is once again full beyond the declared capacity limit and the situation in the coming days is bound to get worse, because sea conditions allow new landings. The Lampedusans are exhausted and, although they assert their recognized propensity forhospitality, now they want to be protected. The triumphant tones with which the emptying of the hotspot was announced acquire even more the tone of farce for those who live on the island after yesterday’s arrivals. Then, dozens of people gathered, yesterday the Lampedusans blocked the port and prevented the vans with migrants on board from leaving the dock.Was a peaceful protestSome protesters sat on the ground, others lay down, but all agreed to shout loudly that the limit has been exceeded in Lampedusa. Just as the demonstration was progressing, a few meters away another small boat arrived with about twenty migrants on board, one more day like many others on Pelagie Island.
The deployment of the forces of order to guarantee security was massive but, when the police realized that the protesters had no military intentions but only wanted to assert their rights, they made a gesture that provoked great applause from the population. . The agents, according to protocol, were deployed in riot gear but at one point they took off their helmets and broke ranks in an act of relaxation appreciated by the protesters.
“We are not satisfied with Count-Martello’s meeting. The landings continue and we want to say enough of all this. Lampedusa hotspot must be closed and must be dismantled immigration machine. The only solution to solve the problem is to put boats to patrol the coast. We ask for it but the government turns a deaf ear, because the government is an accomplice of those who sell human meat”Stated Angela Maraventano, former senator of the Legal Force, who organized the strike.
In these hours the mayor of Messina, Cateno De Luca, also made his voice heard: “If the president of the Council of Ministers Giuseppe Conte still has a modicum of modesty, he should come to Lampedusa putting himself in command of the Italian army to block the indiscriminate landings of migrants“.
