ITALY
RECEIVES THE MIGRANTS SHIPWRECKED IN CRETE
Seven hundred people,
following the International Migrations Organisation, were on board of
the cargo ship Clipper Hebe, which sank near Crete on the 4th of
June.
It is one of the worst episodes ever happened in the
Mediterrean, which lets us wonder of a very difficult summer, for
both the Italian and Greek.
The are only 350 survivors, and as they
arrived they told to the Greek Coast Guard, to be on their way to
Italy. The authorities of both countries found an agreement as soon
as possible, and decided to bring the migrants to Italy.
RECEIVED IN THE
“BEL PAESE”
President of Council Matteo Renzi, immediatly
after hearing the news, gave orders to have the migrants brought to
Italy at the Augusta port. In the morning of the 5th June, the 350
survivors finally arrived on the sicilian coast.
Migrant Law, Italy
The power of
attorney of Siracusa has opened the invastigations on the case in
order to identify the migrants and to find the responsibles.
Human
Right Watch and other humanitary organisations talk about a minimum
of 800 dead people in the Mediterrean in last week. In the meanwhile,
the number of migrants arrived on italian coasts raised by 4% on an
annual base.
Moreover. on the 4th of June other 350 migrants were
succored in the Channel of Sicily, south from Capo Passero.
CONTROVERSIES AND
GESTURES OF SOLIDARITY
The decision to bring the survivors of
the Crete tragedy in Italy provoked very strong controversies. The
first one to tell his vision about the whole story is the Senato
vice-President, Maurizio Gasparry, who declared “It’s a shame.
Even if shipwrecks occur in Crete, migrants are brought to Italy and
not towards the closest places. It’s really the last straw.”
On
the other hand, there are still ones who want integration and move in
that direction, like the President of the Republic, Sergio
Mattarella, who inaugurated a museum of immigration on the Island of
Lampedusa on the 3rd of June.
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