9.35am. The NGO sailing ship Nadir rescued a 10-metre dinghy carrying 47 (5 women and 3 minors) migrants originating from Congo, Gambia, Nigeria, Sudan, Mali, Senegal and Guinea Conakry. The group, already transferred to a coast guard patrol boat and landed in Lampedusa, reported that they had left, paying 2,500 dollars, from Zawya in Libya. In recent days, the NGO Nadir had rescued, in the Sar Maltese area, the boat in whose hold 10 young migrants were found dead from asphyxiation.
8.20 am. Two small boats, with a total of 41 migrants on board, managed, between night and dawn, to arrive directly at Cala Pisana and the commercial pier of Lampedusa. The first group, made up of 32 Pakistanis and Syrians who left Tripoli in Libya, were stopped by the Carabinieri; the other 9, including a woman, Tunisians were instead stopped by the financial police. In the latter case, according to the stories of the 9, the crossing made with a 6 meter boat would have been self-financed.
The two groups were taken to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district where there are currently 241 guests. For the morning, the prefecture of Agrigento has arranged for 150 migrants to board the Sansovino ferry who will arrive in Porto Empedocle in the evening.
Yesterday, on the island, there were 5 landings with a total of 194 migrants. Two small boats with 18 and 28 people on board (Egyptians, Syrians, Bangladeshis, Sudanese and Somalis) had arrived at Punta Sottile. The migrants left Tripoli paying 2 thousand dollars each, others from Sabratha, paying 5 thousand dollars. On the other three boats, rescued by the patrol boats of the Captaincy and the financial police, there were 45, 55 and 48 Ivorians, Guineans and Gambians who left from Sfax and Nabeul, in Tunisia.
