"Sicily cannot continue to suffer this invasion of migrants. In a few hours, the order with which I order the evacuation of all the existing Hotspots and Reception Centers will be on my table. An airlift is activated immediately and the Sicily from these shameful structures, starting with Lampedusa ". This was announced by the president of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci in light of the high number of Coronavirus positive migrants landed in Sicily.
"The European and national rules - continues Musumeci - have been torn apart. Europe pretends nothing has happened and the national government has decided - despite our appeals - not to implement the decrees in force and not to close the ports, as it did instead last year with the Interior-Defense-Transport inter-ministerial decree. There is a guilty underestimation of the unprecedented phenomenon. And they don't understand how much tension is growing. They want to make Sicilians, who are the most welcoming people in the world, racist "Now if they want Rome to challenge my order as well. Enough: we had too much institutional respect for this emergency, reciprocated by silence, indifference and omissions".