escape mass by the migrants guests inside the tensile structure built in the area adjacent to the port of Porto Empedocle. The incident occurred on this early afternoon, raising the alarm in the seaside town which represents the first landing point for migrants after transfers from Lampedusa.
Up to this morning, about 500 foreigners were guests inside the structure built by the Civil Protection and this had generated many concerns among the population. Also Ida Carmina, pentastellato mayor of Porto Empedocle, had expressed concern about the abundant number of migrants present inside the reception structure.
This morning, having intervened as a guest in a broadcast, she had expressed her concern and expressed all her doubts about the safety migrants locked in that windowless center. The high temperatures of these days and the lack of air recycling had put in alarm the first citizen about possible riots by foreigners. From what were worries, we have moved on to reality. In the early afternoon of today, migrants have fled many of them, distributing themselves on the roads and in the countryside areas in the hope of not being traced. The alarm went off, the police forces immediately set to work in search of the fugitives among the main and secondary roads of the provincial territory.
“Almost all of them have been tracked down,” the minister reassured Luciana Lamorgese in the evening. The government tries to contain the emergency and promises measures: “Military personnel from the Safe Roads operation will be sent shortly“, says the owner of the Interior Ministry, assuring that other” quarantine ships “will also be sent and that the migrants will soon be relocated.
“We are tired of this situation,” mayor Ida Carmina said to our editorial staff, continuing: “Migrants continue to arrive and this generates concerns about possible cases of positivity to the coronavirus. It is a situation that cannot continue in this way. It is necessary – continued the first citizen of Porto Empedocles – that it State intervene and gear with specific measures and means. The reception must be carried out in compliance with the salute of citizens. The migrants among other things – concludes Ida Carmina – were guests in a structure not suitable for reception without the right and adequate health conditions ”
And the anger and the apprehension of the citizens did not take long to arrive at a delicate moment like this because of the precarious health situation caused by the coronavirus. A mass leaks phenomenon that has been taking place in the last few days in numerous reception centers. The last episode, in chronological order, what happened yesterday to Caltanissetta. 184 migrants fled the Pian del Lago reception center in the Nissian territory in the evening, triggering searches by law enforcement officers who worked all night and recovered 118. Research continues and attention remains high among citizens who collaborate with reports on sightings in the area.
In recent days, numerous migrants had fled from other reception centers in Sicily such as Pantelleria and Pozzallo. The script is always the same: after a few days of staying inside the structures, the moment of escape begins. Meanwhile, migrants continue to arrive in Lampedusa and will almost certainly arrive in the next few days asking for solutions upstream of the problem. And the Senator of Forza Italia intervened on what happened this afternoon in Porto Empedocle Maurizio Gasparri: “The government’s Caporetto on immigration is getting worse by the hour. Today a hundred have escaped from Porto Empedocle. An absolute shame. A scandal. The disaster of an irresponsible government that makes amnesties for immigrants and then lets illegal immigrants escape. No hand outstretched to this government. Pd and grillini should be hunted– Senator Gasparri continues- because they want to keep the Italian economy closed, massacre restaurants and bars, block school and open the doors of illegal immigrants, some of whom even carry virus. Hunting this government is a muste”.
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