Mare Nostrum: Italy says 800,000 migrants poised to arrive
Border police say reception system ‚already at breaking point‘
By Sandra Cordon ANSAmed – ROME, APRIL 29 –
At least 800,000 migrants are about to depart the North African coast for Europe, while the reception system in Italy – the first landing point for the vast majority of these – is already on the brink of collapse from tens of thousands of earlier arrivals, official said Tuesday. „We no longer have a place to take them, and locals are overwhelmed by the constant arrival of foreigners,“ Giovanni Pinto, head of the Immigration and Border Police agency, told a joint meeting of the foreign and defence committees in the Italian Senate. Weiterlesen »