ANCONA Four days of navigation for 1500 kilometres. The Geo Barents, the Doctors Without Borders ship which on Thursday, in two separate operations in the Mediterranean, rescued 34 desperate people, crammed onto small boats, is expected in the port of Ancona on Tuesday morning (but the arrival could be brought forward to Monday). made of fiberglass, adrift off the coast of Libya.
Il summit
A summit was held yesterday in the Prefecture in which the relevant bodies and offices involved participated, following a consolidated protocol. The Doric capital, in fact, is preparing for the tenth landing since the new regulations on the reception of migrants rescued at sea were launched. The psychological barrier of the thousand shipwrecked people landed in the Doric port will be overcome, even if most of them were sent to facilities outside the region. This will not be the case this time. According to the indications from Rome, the 34 migrants who left Libya and were rescued by Geo Barents should be hosted in the Marche. The unaccompanied minors, who should be 6 (but the number is subject to change) will be taken care of in the emergency facilities in Ancona. At the moment, the Prefecture reports, the nationalities of the people rescued are not known but no critical issues from a health point of view have been reported.
Geo Barents, as usual, will dock at dock 19, then the identification procedures will be carried out in a hub that should be the Paolinelli sports center in Baraccola. “Following the usual protocol, the Municipality will make its own structure and social workers available for cases that require special attention, while the civil protection will take care of the logistical aspects – explains councilor Giovanni Zinni -. No worries on the organizational level, rather we hope that there is a change of direction in the European Union to prevent this phenomenon of uprooting from one’s land that does not offer guarantees of inclusion, a job or a better life path”.
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