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June 13, 2021 "It was yet another night of tension in the first reception center of Lampedusa, where the situation is becoming explosive again right now. A center that can accommodate up to 200 people, currently contains over 950 and other landings are expected today ". This was stated by Domenico Pianese, general secretary of the Coisp police union.

The union leader adds: "Last night the newly disembarked migrants had to sleep outside the structure due to a lack of beds and the surrounding area has become a real open-air sewer".

For Pianese it is a security alarm and denunciation: "The gatherings are now constant and the anti-contagion rules have all been skipped. Of the more than 950 migrants now present in the hotspot, only 500 have swabbed. The Government must intervene immediately by sending more agents to the Center, since the few who are there now are working tirelessly with grueling shifts of up to 12-14 hours a day. Also because it is the entire public and health safety of the country that is at risk. We are only at the beginning summer is the situation is already out of control ", he concludes.

In the New Dock of Augusta, in Syracuse, in the afternoon starting at 6.30 pm, the wreck of the boat that sank on April 18, 2015 in the Mediterranean will be welcomed and the victims of all the tragedies of the sea will be commemorated. The tragic shipwreck cost the lives of a thousand migrants, only 28 people survived. A year later, by the will of the Italian government, the wreck was recovered from the seabed with a complex operation and taken to the naval base of Augusta for the removal of the remains of the hundreds of victims who had remained trapped there. The fishing boat, which departed from Libya, was carrying over a thousand migrants and sank in the Strait of Sicily.