Announced by the siren of a patrol
boat, the Medinea and Antarctica fishing
boats entered the hatch of the
New Port of Mazara del Vallo, carrying the 18 fishermen seized in Libya and released last Thursday after 108 days of captivity
.
Mazara del Vallo, the arrival of fishing boats with freed fishermen in Libya
The two boats left Benghazi around one in the morning on Friday for a little less than 60 hours.
Family members and authorities are waiting for them on the quay.
"We will laugh and joke again. I know them, they are great men", said Marco Marrone, owner of the Medinea, at the port of Mazara del Vallo.
"Today is our Christmas, a few days earlier. I hope this story is a spur to unite the navy of Mazara, which in its history has undergone at least 50 kidnappings; and it helps the government to resolve the question of Libya's maritime borders. ", he added.
The fishermen on the two boats moored on the quay in Mazara del Vallo, came out on the bridge, greeted.
Relatives and other fishermen send kisses with their hand from the ground.
On the quay of the port of Mazara you can see three bunches of balloons that reproduce the colors of the Italian flag.
The 18 covid swabs made on the fishermen returned to Mazara del Vallo were all negative.
The seafarers got off the boats to perform the anticovid test in the gazebo set up by the Usca dell'Asp in Trapani.
At the same time as the rapid swabs, molecular swabs were also performed, the result of which will be known within six hours.
