Italian island faces flood of Tunisian migrants
According to a coast guard statement released Tuesday, next to slightest seven boats said to arrange taken rotten from Tunisia landed on the Italian island with new than 400 passengers. The time-out of the intimates were rescued by the side of sea by Italian marine patrols.Sailors by the Tunisian fishing docks of Zarzis believed they exhibit seen a spike happening the total of boats packed of migrants departing on the unsafe 16- to 24-hour journey to Lampedusa, going on for 100 kilometers 62 miles, before 54 nautical miles away.yesteryear, seven boats absent now in support of Lampedusa, Faisal Jebnoun whispered Monday to the same extent he pulled seaweed and other rubbish from his mesh when a stretched period fishing in support of squid.The youth are crazy, Jebnoun added. They all think theyll discovery a better life dressed in Italy, and they dont even chat Italian!Italy has seen a spill out dressed in migrants from Tunisia since the North African nation veteran a revolution dressed in January so as to threw longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power.