Thousands of desperate people have arrived, yet hostile Italian and EU leaders offer no help – to them or to islanders, writes former mayor of Lampedusa Giusi Nicolini
, in which up to 15,000 people arrived on the island in a few days, could have been foreseen and properly responded to by a country of Italy’s size. The situation here is a crisis only because we have a population of just 6,000.in 2011 after the Tunisian revolution. Then, large numbers of people crossed the Mediterranean to flee the political unrest after the regime’s collapse – and the population of the island doubled in a matter of weeks, causing a political outcry.
The crisis in 2011 was very similar to today’s both in terms of conditions in north Africa as well as in terms of Italian politics, with ministers from the populist League running the interior ministry. And we seem to have learned nothing.to stop departures instead of serious long-term migration policies. The same hardline promises are also being made about repatriation, which even those making them must know can not realistically be carried out.
Some of the newly arrived boats ran aground on the island’s beaches, crashing into rocks and capsizing along with their human cargo, requiring dangerous rescue operations at sea. Two infants died in the sea – and on the shore, ambulances were unable to assist everyone who needed help: dehydrated women who were unable to breastfeed their babies or youths with injuries and burns covered in flies.
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