In Italy, a hot topic suddenly returns to the front of the stage at the risk of shaking the majority of Mario Draghi. In recent days, makeshift boats and old rusty fishing boats have arrived in the small island of Lampedusa, laden with migrants, mostly from the west coast of Libya. In twenty-four hours, no less than twenty ships, with 2,128 people on board, landed in the Lampedusa hotspot, which in principle can only accommodate 250 people.
“If 1000 migrants disembark in one day, the reception machine holds up more or less. But if 3,000 to 4,000 people arrive, what do we do? "
alert the mayor of Lampedusa, Totò Martello, who has not seen such a daily flow for two years.
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While milder weather may have favored the acceleration of sea departures in recent days, this sudden influx is worrying.
Because, after two years of decline in arrivals - in 2019 with the radical policy of Matteo Salvini at the Ministry of the Interior
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