The Italian Government today urged the Navy to send urgently to Lampedusa a military aircraft with capacity for 1,000 passengers to relieve the crush of arrivals in recent days on the island, according to Ansa agency reported. Landings from North African citizens, especially Tunisia, have brought back to Lampedusa in an extreme situation.
In the host, with capacity for 850 people, crowded around 3,000 immigrants, and sanitary and hygienic conditions are getting worse. A ferry carrying the material to erect a camp for 500 people today could not reach the island by bad sea conditions. Another 1,200 refugees arrived yesterday from Tunisia to the island in fifteen boats and stayed last night in the open.
Local citizens are increasingly concerned that the governmental management of the emergency will not solve congestion, tried to prevent by force the boats docked at the pier. Following the adoption of UN resolution, the islanders now fear that the regime of Gaddafi take military retaliation against Lampedusa.
The threats made by Colonel Libyan bomb warning that Mediterranean countries if NATO decides to attack Tripoli, are taken very seriously in the island, recalling the date of April 15, 1986, when two SCUD missile manufacturing Soviet were released by Libya against the base Loran, who then managed the United States.
The missiles fell into the sea, several miles south of the island. "We are between two fires," he told La Repubblica the former mayor Totò Martello, "on one side, immigrants have taken the island and on the other it is possible that we become the target of Gaddafi." 
In the host, with capacity for 850 people, crowded around 3,000 immigrants, and sanitary and hygienic conditions are getting worse. A ferry carrying the material to erect a camp for 500 people today could not reach the island by bad sea conditions. Another 1,200 refugees arrived yesterday from Tunisia to the island in fifteen boats and stayed last night in the open.
Local citizens are increasingly concerned that the governmental management of the emergency will not solve congestion, tried to prevent by force the boats docked at the pier. Following the adoption of UN resolution, the islanders now fear that the regime of Gaddafi take military retaliation against Lampedusa.
The threats made by Colonel Libyan bomb warning that Mediterranean countries if NATO decides to attack Tripoli, are taken very seriously in the island, recalling the date of April 15, 1986, when two SCUD missile manufacturing Soviet were released by Libya against the base Loran, who then managed the United States.
The missiles fell into the sea, several miles south of the island. "We are between two fires," he told La Repubblica the former mayor Totò Martello, "on one side, immigrants have taken the island and on the other it is possible that we become the target of Gaddafi."
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