dozens of barges, inflatable boats and small boats leaving the harbor of sfax organized in groups or in prey too smuggler. The flow of migrants crosses the route of Tunisia to reach Italian coasts it doesn’t seem to stop. Were between Friday and Saturday evenings over three thousand The migrants which took off and more than sixty landings took place. And the activity of Coast Guard Tunisian reporting that it has slowed down for the past three days 79 attempts Departure, rescue of 2,982 people on board ships in distress off Sfax and Chebba.
The rescue operations also go into theSar area (Search and Rescue) Italian. I am 2,500 Migrants already rescued by our authorities, including Sicily And Calabria, under the coordination of the Coast Guard. Another 190 shipwrecked are on board the GeoBarentsthe ship from Doctors Without Bordersdirectly to the port of bari while 78 were recovered from life support From Emergency in Maltese waters. TO Lampedusain addition to the rescued people also by the NGO ship Louise Michael sponsored by Banksyother 294 They arrived in different autonomous landings.
The hotspot of Contrada Imbriacolaalready overloaded, reached the record of over 2,250 arrivals in twenty-four hours versus just under four hundred seats and about fifty landings were recorded on the island. According to Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, the migration flow to Italy is also due to an “attractiveness factor apublic opinion what accepting it entails phenomenon while in other countries they are small and not so small uncompromising across in between different political positionswithout resistance,” he said in a speech at the Lega’s political training center in Milan.
Rescues and arrivals are increasing, but so is the death toll. The last drama at sea happened in Maltese SAR area where at least after the sinking of two small boats seven corpses were recovered by Coast Guard and British patrol boats Yellow Flames Italians who took part. The harbor master’s office managed to save about ten people while others were recovered by a Tunisian fishing boat that was in the area and then escorted to the port of Lampedusa. Just a few hours earlier, contact with 34 migrants from Tunisian countries had been broken off the Tunisian coastAfrica southern of the Sahara: They still appear distributed after the boat they were traveling in sank.
“Since we can’t reach most of the boats, we’re trying to find out which ones have arrived. intercepted or turned around. Major rescue efforts are required,” he explains alarm phone, the independent support organization for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. The latter also reported a boat in distress with approx 84 people away Libyabut the activists of Sos Mediterranean Anyone approaching the boat would have been threatened Libyan authorities that would have erupted shots in the air.