“We are on our knees,” says the Mayor Totò Martello, as he slammed Italian Prime Minster Giuseppe Conte’s left-wing government’s failure to stem migration
A total of 1,000 migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa this weekend, including 367 migrants in a fishing boat on Sunday night, prompting Mayor Toto Martello to call on the islanders to go on a general strike to get the attention of Italy’s unresponsive left-wing government.
The island is already overcrowded with thousands of migrants, and the desperate mayor of Lampedusa is now asking the government for immediate intervention, otherwise, the whole island will go on strike, the daily Le Figaro reported.
Migrants landing on the island are often welcomed with protests organized by locals, including some of which are promoted by the opposition League party, but it has done little to stop the migrant wave.
There are 1,160 migrants in Lampedusa’s emergency center, which is ten times its maximum capacity. About 30 small boats, mostly from the Tunisian coast, have arrived on the island since Friday, with about 500 illegal migrants on them. That’s twice as many Tunisians that the Italian government repatriated back to Tunisia this month.
