The arrival of about 6,000 immigrants in the last hours in Italian island of Lampedusaoff the African coast, caused chaos and the police had to separate the crowd of people at the port with their shields.

This morning everything 5,112 immigrants on this small Mediterranean island arrived in the last 24 hours, but landings continued throughout Wednesday, according to local media.

The population of the island of Lampedusa is only 6025 inhabitants.

🇮🇹 | More images of the migratory invasion in Lampedusa. Police say the number of immigrants exceeded 5,000 within 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/6KEuKag4KP

— ʜᴇʀQʟᴇs (@herqles_es) September 13, 2023

This means that the port of Lampedusa, Punta Favaloro, has registered huge concentrations of immigrants, held back, with some difficulties and moments of tension, by a cordon financial guard agents (Italian Border Police).

This little island gateway to Europe from Africaa high migration flow from uncontrolled coasts continues to be recorded Tunisia and Libya, aggravated in summer by, among other factors, more favorable weather conditions in the open sea.

Enough, now I have a concrete analysis of the uncontrolled flow of poetry #Lampedusa. I’m not number di #migrants = Persone eccezionali. We now have about 125,000 sbarchi starting next year or less like 2016. Allora, but such chaos reigned on the island: perche? 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/u1riX7h5Cu

—Angela Caponnetto (@AngiKappa) September 13, 2023

In one of the operations carried out this morning by the Italian coast guard, some of the 46 migrants traveling in a boat fell into the water and were rescued, although 5 month old newborn drowned and his body was transported to the Cala Pisana warehouse, the same sources indicated.

When immigrants arrive on the island, they are usually taken to a single initial reception center, almost always in more than difficult conditions and in a crowded situation Well, there are beds for only 400 immigrants.

For this reason, authorities are working to speed up the transfer of these immigrants to other reception and identification centers in the country, usually in Sicily (south), such as Porto Empedocle.

The mayor of the place, Filippo Mannino, called on Meloni’s far-right Georgian government to take “extraordinary measures” such as army intervention.

One sbarco Dietro l’Altro, Non Sono sicura che Siano State Tutte Contate le Persone arrivate oggi a #Lampedusa, as well as perché even continues the arrival of advertising. Now you can only call management and management yourself #CampingLaRoccia, a cui avevo chiesto solo water. Have a lot of data pic.twitter.com/PIqnMs5HW7

— GiusiNicolini (@giusi_nicolini) September 12, 2023

“Nothing like this has ever been seen before. with dozens and dozens of small boats accompanied or attached to rescue units in front of the port, as well as others that manage to arrive directly,” said Mannino, for whom these are “figures that are no longer sustainable on this island. “We need the defense to step in.”

Although the figures are constantly changing, according to data updated today by the Ministry of the Interior, 123,863 immigrants have arrived in Italy this year, almost double the number in the same period in 2022 (65,517) and triple the number in 2021 ( 41,286 people).

EFE