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22 August 2020 "Sicily cannot continue to suffer this invasion of migrants. In a few hours, the order with which I order the evacuation of all the existing Hotspots and reception centers will be on my table. An airlift is activated immediately and Sicily is freed from these shameful structures, starting with Lampedusa ".

This was announced by the president of the Sicilian Region, Nello Musumeci.

"The European and national rules have been torn apart. Europe pretends nothing has happened and the national government has decided - despite our appeals - not to implement the current decrees and not to close the ports, as it did last year with the inter-ministerial Interior-Defense-Transport decree ", he adds. "There is a guilty underestimation of the unprecedented phenomenon. And they don't understand how much tension is growing. Do they want to make Sicilians, who are the most welcoming people in the world, racist? Now if they want to challenge my order in Rome, too. Enough: we had too much institutional respect for this emergency, reciprocated by silences, indifference and omissions ".