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July 19, 2020 Over 20 migrants who arrived in Lampedusa in recent days fled the Taranto Hotspot yesterday evening, where they were waiting to be sent to other centers after identification. This is confirmed by sources of the Taranto Police Headquarters.

Other guests were instead blocked by the police despite the attempt to move away from the structure, which is located in the port area. 

In recent days, a hundred migrants have been transferred to Taranto from Lampedusa. During the identification operations, the agents of the Immigration Office of the Mobile Squad and of the Digos of the Ionian Police Headquarters had arrested a 31-year-old Tunisian, who returned to Italy despite being the recipient of a refusal order issued by the Quaestor of Palermo in September 2019.

Recently the Pannella association had denounced an alleged misuse of the Hotspot "for functions in violation of the law that governs the institution. These structures - the association had highlighted - are intended only for the identification of migrants, and not for their hospitality, lacking the minimum requirements for reception. And yet in these days people already identified in Lampedusa are being transferred to Taranto ".

Fugitive searches have so far failed. 

There are also reports of escape of 23 out of 25 Tunisians who arrived Thursday evening in Gualdo Cattaneo in the province of Perugia in Umbria.

The mayor of the town recalled that the 25 migrants had arrived in Gualdo from Agrigento last Thursday in the afternoon. The prefecture had identified for their accommodation a former farmhouse managed by a social cooperative that had participated in a special call in recent years. In the late afternoon of yesterday, after 7pm, 23 of them - it seems all young men - moved away, managing at the moment to lose their tracks.

A force task was organized for the searches, which went on all night. The area - said the mayor - is characterized by numerous municipal and local roads. The mayor also stressed that he had officially asked for information, but that he did not yet know the details of the migrants, who had been quarantined and in isolation in the former farmhouse. The same in Agrigento had been subjected to serological tests, but the mayor reported that he had no information on any swabs performed.