28/04/2025
LAMPEDUSA 🇮🇹 ❤️🤲🏾❤️
A Tunisian🇹🇳 stranded on the island of Lampedusa declares: “The boat sank, the boat sank.” With tears in his eyes.
Night of the landing on the largest of the Pelagie Islands: 303 migrants arrived in a few hours. The Contrada Imbriacola reception point currently accommodates 611 people. The transfer of 260 people was organized for the morning with the ferry arriving in Porto Empedocle in the evening.
After a brief pause due to sea conditions, 🌊 landings on the Italian island of Lampedusa 🇮🇹 resumed there, on the night of Tuesday, June 27 to Wednesday, June 28, 2025, with the disembarkation of 259 migrants. They were on three boats harnessed by patrol boats from the Guardia di Finanza and the Capitaneria, the Italian news agency Ansamed reported this morning, adding that shortly before, there had been three landings involving 114 people.
In the hotspot of the Imbriacola district, which the prefecture and police have been trying to ease congestion in recent days with a series of transfers, there are currently 613 people.
On the first 10-meter-long boat, moored overnight, were 131 migrants (including 20 women and 15 minors) who declared themselves to be from Morocco, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, and Gambia, and that they had left from the Kerkennah Islands, off the coast of Sfax, after paying between 2,000 and 5,000 Tunisian dinars. On the second boat, there were 17
Tunisians 🇹🇳 (including 4 women and 2 minors) who had left Monastir (Tunisia 🇹🇳)
and on the third, there were 111 (including 10 women and 4 minors) from Bangladesh 🇧🇩, Ivorians, 🇨🇮Palestinians, Syrians, Egyptians, and Sudanese. ❤️🤲🏾🙏🏾
