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23 July 2020Night of landings in Lampedusa where, between rescue operations in the waters in front of the island and autonomous landings, 15 boats arrived with 294 migrants. Among them also 2 pregnant women. Six autonomous landings with a minimum of 8 Tunisians and a maximum of 20 occurred at Favarolo pier and commercial port. In a single intervention, just before dawn, the harbor master's office managed to track down 3 small boats with 103 people on board from Libya, Tunisia and Bangladesh. At the hotspot of Lampedusa (Agrigento), capable of hosting a maximum of 95 people in the only operating pavilion, there would currently be over 600 non-EU citizens. The reception facility is under strong pressure.

Rescuers: "Grueling Days"
Sightings and rescue yesterday followed one another without interruption, engaging the men of the Guardia di Finanza and the Harbor Office all day long. About thirty landings that brought over 550 people to the largest of the Pelagias in just 24 hours. "These are exhausting days," explain the rescuers. And, meanwhile, it ran against time also to empty the hotspot more and more to the collapse. Just yesterday 280 migrants were transferred to Porto Empedocle. "They blocked the passenger ferry that was en route to Porto Empedocle to pick up a group of Tunisian migrants and transfer them to the mainland", denounced the League senator, Angela Maraventano, who returns to ask for a quarantine ship.

Prefecture at work
Another 200 migrants, who arrived in Lampedusa yesterday, were boarded on the scheduled ferry which will arrive in Porto Empedocle in the evening. To arrange the transfer, trying to lighten the presence in the island's hotspot, was the Prefecture of Agrigento. The Prefecture is working to try to plan new trips today.

Salvini: "Criminal Government"
By disembarking migrants, the government "spreads infected for Italy", is a "criminal" action, the defense is an "accomplice of the criminals". Matteo Salvini said this during a press conference in the Chamber. "Tonight only 400 landed, all under control. There is a government that is killing Sicily. The government obviously hates Sicily. The Democratic Party and the 5 stars hate Sicily. It is the most difficult year since the post-war period for tourism, opening ports and being on the news of all the world like the refugee camp of Europe is a criminal thing, from criminals ". 

Feredalberghi Lampedusa: "More media than real
invasion " "The invasion of migrants? A more media than real phenomenon. Of course many come, but thanks to the excellent work of the police, they are rescued, led to the hotspot and then transferred. Tourists certainly don't see them on the streets of the island. " To say it to the Adnkronos is Giandamiano Lombardo, president of Federalberghi Lampedusa, on the day of arrival on the largest of the Pelagias of the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini. Immigration for the entrepreneur who belongs to a family that has dealt with tourism for generations is "a very serious problem, which emotionally involves our territory", above all because of the images transmitted by the media, that is "those, false , of an island invaded by migrants. It is not so ".