Mainly from Tunisia achieved in just the last two days 2,000 people by boat to the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. The government in Rome, Brussels is now asking for help. Lampedusa - Italy gets implications of the unrest in Arabia, already very directly.
Since the uprising in Tunisia the country is facing claims to the increased influx of boat people. According to Coast Guard arrived in just the last two days, more than 2,000 illegal immigrants, the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. There they are fed and medically examined. With ships and aircraft, they are then taken to holding centers in Sicily or on the Italian mainland.
On Friday about the Coast Guard conducted in the morning a boat with 181 refugees to Lampedusa. All inmates, including 16 minors, had indicated that they would come from the nearest opposite of Lampedusa Tunisia, said a spokesman for the Coast Guard. All boat people arriving since Thursday had apparently been in good health.
The Italian government fears that the situation gets out of control - and invites the European Union for support. Brussels should send "immediately" units of the EU border agency Frontex to Tunisia and have them patrol along the coast, it said in a statement the Foreign Ministry in Rome on Friday.
Refugees reported against the Italian authorities that, in the Tunisian ports were to take place no controls at all anymore. The Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni had said on Wednesday the fear of Tunisian prisons escaped "terrorists" would invade Europe by each spent as political refugees.
A month ago, people had celebrated the departure of the authoritarian ruler Tunisia Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Whose fall is the starting point for the protests in Egypt and in many other countries in the Arab world.
Since the uprising in Tunisia the country is facing claims to the increased influx of boat people. According to Coast Guard arrived in just the last two days, more than 2,000 illegal immigrants, the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. There they are fed and medically examined. With ships and aircraft, they are then taken to holding centers in Sicily or on the Italian mainland.
On Friday about the Coast Guard conducted in the morning a boat with 181 refugees to Lampedusa. All inmates, including 16 minors, had indicated that they would come from the nearest opposite of Lampedusa Tunisia, said a spokesman for the Coast Guard. All boat people arriving since Thursday had apparently been in good health.
The Italian government fears that the situation gets out of control - and invites the European Union for support. Brussels should send "immediately" units of the EU border agency Frontex to Tunisia and have them patrol along the coast, it said in a statement the Foreign Ministry in Rome on Friday.
Refugees reported against the Italian authorities that, in the Tunisian ports were to take place no controls at all anymore. The Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni had said on Wednesday the fear of Tunisian prisons escaped "terrorists" would invade Europe by each spent as political refugees.
A month ago, people had celebrated the departure of the authoritarian ruler Tunisia Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Whose fall is the starting point for the protests in Egypt and in many other countries in the Arab world.
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