114 migrants that the boat has on board
FROM THE CORRESPONDENT FROM CATANIA. After Seq-Eye 4, Ocean Viking also obtained a landing port from the Italian authorities for the 114 migrants she has on board, eight days after rescuing them in the central Mediterranean: it is Trapani. It was the ship’s own NGO, Sos Mediterranée, that gave the news. At the time of the communication, the ship was sailing under Sicily, at the limit of Italian territorial waters. The arrival in Trapani is scheduled for tomorrow: «On board it is a moment of great joy and relief – tweeted Sos Mediterranée – on this Christmas evening!».
This morning the Sea-Eye 4 of the German NGO of the same name had landed the 214 migrants it had on board for over a week in Pozzallo. Among them also «Sos», the child of just 19 days so renamed by his mother. At the anti-Covid check, the migrants all tested negative. They were transferred to a quarantine ship from Augusta. “Pozzallo, as always, fulfills this task with a spirit of solidarity with its organizational machine and above all with the great culture of hospitality – said the mayor of the Ragusa port city, Roberto Ammatuna -. How is it possible that in Europe there is no trace of the institution of a civil service for the rescue of life at sea, financed by the European Union, which systematizes the work of NGOs? “.
The boat rescued this morning by Geo Barents
At sea, waiting for a “Pos” or in any case a port of disembarkation, there are two other NGO ships, with about 650 people on board: the Geo Barents of Doctors Without Borders which just today completed its eighth rescue in a few days, after having recovered from a two-level boat in precarious navigation, a hundred people in the Maltese SAR area. The ship now has 558 migrants on board. And there is the Sea Watch 3 which, as soon as it arrived in that stretch of the Mediterranean sea, this morning to the south of Lampedusa, rescued 93 other people: “All the castaways are now safe on board our ship”, said the NGO German.
In Lampedusa, the autonomous landings of small boats coming almost always from Tunisia continue: today 30 Tunisians and Bangladeshi arrived, brought to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district from where the transfers of migrants arrived in recent days on one of the quarantema ships began. Yesterday the prefect of Agrigento, Maria Rita Cocciufa, said that in 2021 there were about 35 thousand migrants who arrived on the island, almost half of all those (65 thousand) who arrived in Italy this year. In 2020 there were twenty thousand.
Another arrival of migrants is reported in Salento: 154 on the usual sailing ship departed from Turkey were intercepted by the Financial Police a few miles from Santa Maria di Leuca. They come from Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkey and even Armenia and Nepal.
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