Monday, May 9, 2011

Lampedusa, 15 years of shipwrecks inmigraciny

Lampedusa, an Italian island located 205 km from Sicily and 113 km from Tunis, has become in recent months at the epicenter of a crisis that affects the entire EU after receiving tens of thousands of immigrants from Tunisia and Libya. He turns to talk of the island, especially today, after the priest gives the Ethiopian statement Zerai Moses, who has denounced the failure of relief ships of NATO, one of the last tragedy that occurred last month.

Also today, the Italian President Napolitano, said that the issue of immigrants is a problem throughout Europe and considers the need for a common understanding, as recorded by the newspaper La Repubblica. -24 December 1996: Nearly 300 immigrants drowned between Malta and the island of Lampedusa after their boat collided with another.

-07 March 2002: 12 dead and more than 50 missing Lampedusa near the shipwreck of a boat with immigrants. -20 August 2009: Of the 78 Eritrean migrants jumped into the water in the hope of reaching the island of Lampedusa, only five survived. The rest died of exhaustion. -06 April 2011: 250 migrants died or were missing after a shipwreck off the IISL of Lampedusa.

-09 May 2011: A ship from Libya with 72 people on board, drifted for 16 days. All least 11 immigrants died of thirst and hunger.

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