Italy airs video of migrants sank off Lampedusa International warnings of turning the Mediterranean into a large cemetery Sunday 7 November 1434 e - October 13, 2013
Dubai - Al-Arabiya, Rome - Reuters
Italian Navy aired the first video of migrants sank off Lampedusa,
Italy and Malta warned of turning the Mediterranean into a "graveyard"
for immigrants. And increasing calls for action by the European Union after hundreds of migrants sank.
Malta and Italy pressed on their partners in the European Union,
Saturday, in order to make more of an effort to put an end to the crisis
which he said immigrants Prime Minister of Malta she turned the
Mediterranean into a "graveyard" after another boat sank off the coast
of Sicily, killing dozens.
Navy ships recovered the Italian and Maltese 34 dead and 206 others
rescued after their boat sank about 60 nautical miles south of Sicily,
Friday, and also rescued more than 200 others in separate incidents on
Saturday.
The disaster came Friday, about a week after the sinking of at least
358 people when their boat capsized at a distance of less than one mile
from a small island between Sicily and Tunisia, has become a focal point
in the growing migrant crisis in southern Europe.
And an increasing number of immigrants from North Africa steadily over
the past two decades, many of whom where this journey in the summer when
the water is calmer Mediterranean.
The refugee crisis worsened this year due to the unrest in Egypt, and
civil war in Syria, and chaos in Libya, which represents the starting
point for many migrant boats.
Cemetery "Mediterranean"
He asked the Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, in an interview
with the British Broadcasting Corporation (me. Me. C), saying: "How many
more people must die in the sea before finding a solution."
He added that Italy will be joined in pressing for action at the next meeting of the European Council.
He said: "The fact is that if things remained so we build a cemetery in
the Mediterranean Sea. Now to face it with data and speech, and nothing
more than that."
During the interview the Italian navy rescues 235 other people,
including children, from other boats carrying migrants encounter a
problem after about 70 nautical miles south of the island of Lampedusa.
Recovered and rescue units on the island another 19 bodies from the
boat that sank last week, bringing the number of confirmed dead in the
accident to at least 358 people.
Italy is facing a crisis
The pressure of the Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, already for
the inclusion of the crisis on the agenda of the European Council
meeting on 24 and 25 October, although Europe long resisted progress a
comprehensive response to the crisis.
The Lithuanian Radio Europe 1 French "We can not continue this way. We
are in a situation imposes on us a real emergency situation in the light
of what is happening in North Africa, Eritrea, Somalia and Syria."
According to estimates by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), the United Nations, the 32 thousand immigrants arrived in the
south of Italy and Malta this year alone to now, provided nearly
two-thirds of requests for asylum.
And confirms Italy - which suffer from a severe recession and is under
pressure from the European Union to rein in public spending - that
installations migrant reception set up by in Lampedusa and other parts
of the island of Sicily reached a maximum absorption, and repeatedly
requested more assistance in the face of crisis, says it is a state of
emergency European .
Lita said "there is too much of arrivals to us, and we can not deal with the disaster that occurred in the past few weeks."
He stressed the need for a common European policy to deal with the
"explosive situation" in Libya, where the government struggling to
assert control over the armed violence groups or to prevent gangs from
organizing secret flights.
Europe looking for solutions
And resulted in hundreds of deaths also escalating debate in Italy
about the strict rules aimed at addressing immigration secret that
criminalize assistance to Zawriq illegal immigrants.
The Commissioner of Internal Affairs in the Cecilia Maleström the
European Union last week called for the promotion and the European
border agency for the dissemination of units for search and rescue
operations in an area stretching between Cyprus and Spain.
And repeated the call after the disaster Friday, and she said, "we have
heard in the aftermath of a disaster to Lampedusa expressions of
solidarity from European countries, but these remain just empty words if
not followed by concrete actions."
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