Over 1,000 immigrants and refugeesaccording to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, are floating, south of it Calabria, and are in danger of sinking. The fishing boats they are 100 miles southeast of it Rochella Ionica.
All in all, they have mobilized for the rescue operation three speedboats, five ships and an aircraft of the Italian Coast Guard, together with the ship Sirio, of the Italian Navy.
The “desperate of the sea” board three large fishing vessels off the coast of Cyrenaica, which are now 100 nautical miles southeast of Rocella Ionica, in Calabria.
According to the APE-MPE, the rescue operations are coordinated by the operations center of the coast guard in Rome in the area of responsibility of the Italian Sar. Businesses are “particularly complex due to the large number of people who board the drifting boats,” explains the Coast Guard, which has also planned to use an aircraft Atr 42, of Nave Corsi and Nave Visalli.
Operations have been accelerated due to the predicted worsening of weather conditions as the southwesterly winds become stronger as time goes on. The Italian authorities were notified by Frontexfrom vessels belonging to NGO but also from the alarm signaling system Alarm phone.
As reported by La Republica, Mediterranea’s head of mission and activist, Luca Casarini, stated that “there is no need for a police operation. This is a fishing boat full refugees fleeing and asking for help. There are dozens women and children. And from the ship they signal on the alarm phone that they are already taking water. There is not a minute to waste.”
Source: News Beast
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