Migrants in Italian waters enter with 450 on board. Salvini: "He must not arrive here". But he sails to Lampedusa

TRAPANI – They came back with wooden boats, or rather boats, to prepare for a longer road that can take them to Italy. As it happened yesterday and today in Lampedusa and how, according to the information provided by the Viminale, it is happening from dawn to today, from dawn to dusk. first in Maltese waters, where a large two-story ship was sighted, a fishing boat loaded with 450 migrants, headed north. From the Ministry of the Interior, they said that the old boat, a fishing boat of about 20 meters, was leaving Libya, probably from Zuara. For a few hours he sailed towards the Sicilian coast, towards Agrigento or Syracuse, then he entered the Italian region Sar and would have corrected the route, towards Lampedusa. At 21, according to the latest information, the boat is located 5 miles southeast of Linosa. The port of call could be the last island, or Lampedusa. Sail next to two patrol boats, one of the Coast Guard and one of the Finance.

Matteo Salvini had warned: "We know Malta, the intelligences and the good ones of all Italy and the whole world that this boat in an Italian port can not and must not enter.We have already given, we we are heard? " . The reference to the recent rescue of the tugboat Vos Thalbada is clear. According to the first information received from the Viminale, the ship was already in the waters of the Maltese region of Sar this morning (the report was received by Imrcc, the Italian rescue coordination center, around 4.30 pm night). The authorities of Valletta had made the decision to intervene, but after a few hours no patrol boat went to the boat which continued its navigation towards the Italian waters. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent an official note to the Maltese government asking for immediate action to save the boat and confirming that the port of landing should be Maltese. "Malta is doing its duty," tweeted the Minister of Transport, Danilo Toninelli. A spokesman for the Valletta government then explained that the people on board would have indicated their intention to go to Lampedusa: "As they were on the high seas, we did not have the power to give them instructions" .

While awaiting the evolution of the boat business, another landing took place in Calabria: in the evening, a Coast Guard patrol boat arrived in Crotone with 9 women and 17 miners, forming part of of a group of 75 migrants. The men, 49, are on board another patrol boat, the Guardia di Finanza, which reaches the Calabrian port. Iraqi Kurdish migrants were aboard a sailboat, probably from the Turkish coast, intercepted about 12 miles off the coast, off Isola Capo Rizzuto. The boat was reached by the two patrol boats. The Coast Guard, which is faster, has taken care of women and children, while that of Finance, the largest, men. According to what has been learned, the landing was authorized by the Ministry of the Interior. Migrants will be transferred to the Cara di Isola Capo Rizzuto

In the absence of NGOs already several boats from Libya and Tunisia have managed to break through the surveillance of coastal vessels of African coastal states and go directly to Lampedusa . In the small island of Pelagie, in two days, 56 people have landed. Twenty-five yesterday and thirty-one today, Syrian and Libyan families with many children, seventeen, the youngest of whom wore a red shirt, as mothers dress their children to make them more visible . And the center of Contrada Imbriacola, officially closed for renovation for several months, has already almost sold its very small capacity of 96 seats.