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19 September 2019Other new landing in the night on the island of Lampedusa where 28 people arrived, of Tunisian nationality, of the Ivory Coast and of Cameroon. The migrants were aboard a small boat just under a mile from the island when they were rescued by a fast patrol of the Guardia di Finanza.

Among them 19 men, 8 women and a child. People, despite being exhausted and wet, seemed in good health, Mediteranean Hope, the refugee and migrant program of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy, says.

However, the situation at the Lampedusa hotspot remains critical, where against a maximum capacity of 95 people, they are accommodated with the last landing almost 240. The transfer machine, however, does not stop, even if it does not seem to be at step with the continuous landings. Despite the continuous transfers on the mainland, the number of arrivals exceeds that of departures.

In the first weeks of September, 570 people landed in Lampedusa and the security system is on tilt. The staff is not enough to manage the situation ". Stefano Paoloni, general secretary of the autonomous police union (Sap) said so." Currently on the island we have 4 teams of 10 men, including police, carabinieri and financial police, employed in shifts in fourth. In reality, the teams should be five. Often - explains Paoloni - one of the teams is employed for the accompaniments, inevitably leaving one of the quadrants discovered in the 24-hour shift. This forces the remaining three teams to make double shifts, sometimes even consecutively, starting the regular round at 19.00 and then arriving, exhausted, at 9pm the following day, between trips and more. It is inadmissible to work in these conditions, with few staff, two less teams and with exhausting shifts ".