Coast guard ship Diciotti is
currently carrying around 800 rescued migrants and refugees who
will be disembarked at ports other than Lampedusa, Agrigento
police chief Emanuele Ricifari said on Tuesday.
"The Diciotti ship is doing an excellent job of filtering
because it is picking up a large number of migrants directly at
sea - at the moment there are around 800 - who will be taken to
other ports, and so there will be 800 fewer for Lampedusa,"
Ricifari said.
"We have about 2,800 people at the hotspot and another 300 at
Favarolo pier, waiting to disembark from the boats escorted to
port by coast guard and finance police patrol boats," he
continued.
"We are holding up quite well, I remember that about 15 days ago
we managed almost 4,500 people," he added.
On Tuesday Lampedusa saw a record number of arrivals of both
boats and migrants and refugees.
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