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Boat with 1000 migrants lands in Italy
A BOAT crammed with nearly 1000 illegal migrants, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, has reached Sicily after sailing from Libya.Border police commander Francesco Fallica called the landing overnight near Ragusa "biblical". Wait till the "Camp of Saints" scenario really gets under way. The 963 migrants were crowded into a 20-metre long, barely seaworthy boat. He told Sky TG24 TV that some were so stressed by the voyage they fainted after police helped them ashore. A police motorboat came to their aid as they approached Sicily. Reports said the boat left Libya four days earlier. Most aboard were Africans, although some came from Bangladesh. Bangladeshis are fleeing Libya? Tens of thousands of illegal migrants have sailed to Italy in smugglers' boats this year, fleeing north African revolts and unrest. Those without jobs and who are ineligible for asylum are deported. Only if you pay the Duck protection money to take them back and he's rather too busy right now to enter into negotiations. Posted by: tipper 2011-06-01 |
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