Twenty people “disappeared” on the last day of 2024, just before setting foot on the island of Italy – The Meloni government insists on the closed centers in Albania
Twenty people, including three children and five women, are still missing, after the shipwreck that occurred late yesterday afternoon, off the coast of Lampedusa. Thanks to the immediate mobilization of the Italian economic police, seven castaways could be saved: two Egyptians, two of Sudanese origin and three Syrians. An eight-year-old child managed to reach the shore unharmed, with the help of his uncle, who held him tightly in his arms, until the speedboat with the rescuers appeared on the horizon.
Destination Germany
The mother of the little one, who, three days ago, had set sail with him from Zuara, Libya, lost her life. He hoped to secure a better life in Europe and, in particular, in Germanywhere her husband and father of the eight-year-old lives. “The fact that these people had almost managed to set foot on land causes even more pain,” said the mayor of Lampedusa, Filippo Mannino.
Official figures for 2024 show that, compared to the previous year, the arrivals of migrants and refugees in Italy, by sea, decreased by almost 60%. However, lives continue to be lost and this whole phenomenon raises urgent questions to be answered.
The centers of Albania
After an almost endless “bra de fer” with the judges, meanwhile, her government of Rome is preparing to reactivate the transfer of asylum seekers to the two closed centers that Italy has set up in Giarder and Sengin, in northern Albania.
This does not mean, of course, that the judges will approve the stay of immigrants and refugees in the two specific centers. As is well known, the determination of the safe or unsafe countries from which the asylum seekers come is of primary importance. The Meloni government considers it its right to decide which states are safe. The judges, however, want to be able to judge whether each immigrant in his country of origin faces dangers and harassment. A case certainly complicated, but on which the fate of thousands of people depends. The definitive answer will be given, probably in the Spring, by a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Source :Skai
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