The Italian ombudsman for detainees said that migrant arrivals in Italy have seen a large increase in recent years and that they "will not decrease in the next few years". Spaking to the country's parliament he urged for legal pathways to the country.
More than 800 people rescued from the Mediterranean by three private ships were waiting to disembark on Monday. Other migrants were brought ashore in Italy at the weekend, as Alarm Phone warned a boat carrying around 30 was in distress and another was missing.
After a series of rescues, the Sea-Eye 4 has 492 migrants on board. Meanwhile, almost 500 migrants arrived on Lampedusa in the last couple of days.
There are 356 migrants on board the Sea-Watch 3 rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea at the moment after a series of multiple rescues over the weekend. The latest took place on June 6, when 49 migrants were picked up south of Lampedusa.
The rescue organization Sea-Watch’s newest edition to its fleet, the Aurora, rescued 85 migrants on Sunday night. Late on Monday, the organization announced they were already due to disembark on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
A playroom for children between the ages of three and 14 has been inaugurated in the hotspot of Lampedusa to provide a distraction after their terrible journey by sea to reach Italy.
The humanitarian organization Sea-Watch rescued 211 migrants from the Mediterranean over the last days, but survivors and crew had to witness some drown as they arrived too late to help.
The mayor of Lampedusa, Totò Martello has announced a clear-up of migrant boats around the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
On Wednesday, the German foreign ministry announced it would be extending its participation in the EU monitoring mission Irini in the Mediterranean, but it would no longer commit to training the Libyan coast guard, due to concerns about their treatment of migrants. The trainings are part of the Irini mandate.
According to a human rights observatory, 2021 saw record numbers of minors arriving in Italy from Tunisia irregularly, more than half of them sub-Saharan Africans. The numbers have more than quadrupled compared to 2017.
Italian authorities arrested six Egyptian citizens on February 10 on charges of aiding and abetting undocumented migration and murder. The victim was a migrant who was allegedly threatened and beaten aboard a boat in order to force him to remain below deck, near the engine area, until he died.
Authorities are working to identify seven young Bangladeshi migrants who died of hypothermia last week during the crossing from Libya to the island of Lampedusa. The embassy of Bangladesh in Rome has requested the identification in order to repatriate the victims.