The mayor of Lampedusa says the island is “almost alone” in coping with the coming of masses of migrants from northern Africa.
More than 100 migrants have arrived at the small Mediterranean island in the previous few days.
The major reception centre used to be constructed to house 250 other folks, however is lately overpopulated and homes greater than 1,000.
Mayor Filippo Mannino mentioned that whilst stricter laws for migration problems are wanted, the humanitarian scenario should not be misplaced.
“Meanwhile, people continue to arrive and we continue to manage the phenomenon in an emergency way and not in a structural way, as it should be done,” Mannino mentioned.
“Lampedusa finds itself almost alone in managing at the very least a phenomenon that has now reached epochal proportions”.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), greater than 2,800 migrants have died en path to Italy or Malta from Libya or Tunisia since January remaining yr — an build up at the earlier duration.
Italy’s new Interior Minister has mentioned that NGO rescue ships will not be allowed to go into Italian territorial waters.
On Wednesday, protesters demonstrated in Rome in opposition to the renewal of an settlement between Libya and Italy, which supplies fortify at detention centres in northern Africa for individuals who are stuck looking to illegally move to Europe.
NGOs have lengthy mentioned that human rights are blatantly violated at those detention centres in Libya.
