Yet another landing. Once again the government opens the doors to our shores at Ong. This time it’s about Open Arms. The Interior Ministry has assigned the port of Trapani to the ship of the Spanish NGO. The executive therefore yielded to the pressing of the NGO which in the afternoon had made it known that it was in front of the coast of Lampedusa: “At the moment, 259 people are hosted on the deck of our ship, 12 women and 247 men, including 80 minors. (76 unaccompanied), and 5 lifeless bodies, 3 men and 2 women. The castaways, who come mainly from Eritrea, Togo, Sudan, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Burundi, Ghana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast , are in precarious physical and psychological health conditions and must be able to disembark in a safe harbor as soon as possible “, explained Open Arms and Emergency. At this moment – they add – our ship, OpenArms, is off the coast of Lampedusa, waiting to receive information on how and where to guarantee our guests the care they need “.
Taking stock of the bailouts Open Arms-Emergency remember that “after leaving the port of Barcelona on November 4 with our boat, the Open Arms, headed for the central Mediterranean for our 78th search and rescue mission together with Emergency, we found ourselves having to operate in a difficult context and dramatic. There were many reports of boats in difficulty that needed to be rescued, but no humanitarian or governmental structure in the area other than ours “. Then the pressure on the Italian government to obtain a port of landing. And apparently in the evening (for the umpteenth time) the NGO found a docking point on our shores. And the mayor of Lampedusa, Totò Martello, also intervened on the rescues of Open Arms, who after expressing his sorrow for the shipwreck of these days which cost the life of a six-month-old girl, asked for a quick intervention by the Europe to curb sea crossings: “On the eve of the definition of the new EU Pact on migration and the right of asylum, we ask the EU institutions to carefully evaluate the ‘Global Compact for Migration’, the United Nations document that indicates the principles for an ‘orderly, regular and safe’ migration. Only with migratory flows regulated through the involvement of all Member States can other innocent victims be avoided “.
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