Charges against two navy officers in a case involving the death of 268 migrants, including 60 children, off Lampedusa nine years ago have timed out under the statute of limitations. Prosecutors had requested their acquittal.
A new film in Italy, Tra le Onde (Amid the waves), uses fiction to look at the issue of immigration in the Mediterranean.
A four-year-old girl who reached Italy without her parents on a boat carrying migrants from Tunisia in October was repatriated on Thursday, authorities said. A judge in Sicily ruled she should be returned on a request by Tunisian authorities.
More than 10,000 unaccompanied minors have already arrived in Italy by boat since the beginning of 2022. At least 30% reside in Sicily, and are looked after by various projects until they become adults. InfoMigrants visited two such projects in Palermo.
The Italian island of Lampedusa saw the arrival of more than 700 migrants and refugees on Wednesday and Thursday. Over 1,300 people are now staying at local hotspots, built for just 350. A baby was found dead on a boat that crossed from Tunisia.
New migrant landings recorded on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa have once again put under severe strain the local hotspot, which is currently hosting nearly 1,600 migrants. The facility of first hosting was designed to accommodate 350 guests.
Roberta Metsola, the President of of the European Parliament, has warned against a return to "the situation in 2013, when the EU did not show solidarity and did not consider life as something very precious."
"There are two things we cannot choose: life and death," said Ibrahim, a survivor of a shipwreck in the Mediterranean that claimed the lives of his wife and brother. The Ivorian national was transered to a migrant hotspot in Lampedusa.
The first migrant-rescue vessel operated by the Italian medical NGO Emergency has been inaugurated in Genoa. The ship will set sail at the beginning of November.
The crew of the Geo Barents rescue ship conducted several rescue operations on Monday, saving nearly 100 migrants including 17 minors who were on wooden. Now the crew is looking for a safe haven for the nearly 300 on board.
The mothers and sisters of missing Tunisian migrants have been protesting in the streets of the coastal town of Zarzis, demanding that authorities investigate their disappearance.
The private rescue ship Louise Michel rescued 48 migrants from an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean early on October 4. The rescue comes just a couple of days after the ship's crew disembarked the last group of 88 rescued migrants in Sicily.