A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia is overwhelming a tiny Italian island south of Sicily.
Migrants walk towards a station to board a bus directed to Marseille, France, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Despite vows by Italys right-wing government to crack down on migrant arrivals and European Union-inked deals with Tunisia to stem the flow, the numbers of desperate people making the dangerous Mediterranean crossing keep rising.
When the coast guard tried to assist one boat early Wednesday, the smugglers' vessel tipped over, and a mother with her five-month-old baby fell into the sea, Italian Rai state TV said, reporting from Lampedusa. The woman, who is from Guinea, was rescued, in shock, but the baby died, Rai said. "Our aim is to transfer them as fast as possible,'' said Filippo Romano, the prefect of Agrigento, the province in Sicily which includes Lampedusa. He noted that, more than 4,000 migrants stepped ashore, and authorities were able to transfer the people elsewhere, where their asylum requests can be initially processed.
Meloni made stopping the arrivals a main plank of her successful campaign to win office almost a year ago. In a speech to the European Parliament, von der Leyen also spoke of the need for unity within the EU on migration.On Tuesday, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin visited the town of Menton to announce tough new measures, from policing to technological means like drones, aimed at stopping migrants from making their way from Italy to France.
“Out of more than 12,400 takeover requests to Italy this year until the end of August, 10 transfers have taken place so far,'' Kall said, saying that's why Germany is temporarily suspending acceptance of asylum-seekers under a ”voluntary solidarity mechanism."
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