The waves of migrants continue to arrive, recovered by the Coast Guard and the Italian Navy. Approximately 10,000 illegal immigrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean in a week, 950 have died in various circumstances: shipwreck brawl on boats ...
This morning at Pozallo, south of Sicily, dozens were landed.
A little further east of the island, in the port of Augusta, 10 suspected smugglers from sub-Saharan origin were arrested by the Italian police. They were also rescued in international waters by Italian ships.
Asked on arrival at Trapani, northeast of Sicily, a migrant denounces Libyan traffickers:
A reporter asked: "smugglers, what nationality they are, are they Libya?
"They are Libyans, they are all Libyans, and they are bad."
They climb aboard boats? asked the reporter again.
"No, says Darboe, they never boarded. They put only on the boats and leave you there. Libyans are not good guys, they beat you, they kill you, thank you God, I survived. "
Left to themselves, crowded, clandestine face terrible tensions which lead like some time to horror.
Fifteen men, Muslim Senegal, Mali and the Ivory Coast, were arrested for murder when they arrive in Palermo, on the basis of testimonies that say they threw a dozen Christians into the sea.
The situation is beyond everyone, starting with the Italians in the front line to save these illegal immigrants.
And the Coast Guard submits that "with good weather and calm seas, there will be many more arrivals."
Rome expressed his anger towards the European Union.
"The problem is European, but the remedy is Italian, it will not. Surveillance and sea rescue weigh 90% on our shoulders, "said Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni.
Triton Frontex mission that took over operation of the Italian "mare nostrum" seems inadequate.
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