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Italy prepares to lock horns with Malta over 74 migrants on board French trawler
The Armed Forces are on high alert after Lampedusa refused entry to a French fishing vessel which picked up 74 Somali migrants allegedly in Maltese SAR.
17 March 2012, 12:00am
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Karl Stagno-Navarra
1 min read
Italian authorities are preparing to lock horns with Malta over the rescue yesterday afternoon of 74 Somali migrants who were taken on board a French fishing vessel, and allegedly directed by the AFM to disembark them at Lampedusa.
Senior Italian sources confirmed that the French trawler is currently between Malta and Lampedusa awaiting instructions, after being ordered to stay away from Lampedusa which has been declared as an "unsafe port" following last year's riots by migrants which destroyed the facilities on the island.
The situation regarding the fate of the 74 migrants has reportedly been on the AFM radar for the past 24 hours, but the rescue was allegedly made some 40 miles south of Lampedusa and 100 miles off Malta, making Lampedusa the closest port of call for the trawler.
While top military officials were attending former President Censu Tabone's State funeral in Valletta this morning, the AFM's control-room was busy coordinating anumber of distress calls which were dispatched from a number of migrant boats in the Mediterranean.
Italian authorities are coping with the arrival of more than 120 migrants on two separate boats between last night and this morning, the second boat with 60 migrants was discovered to have five bodies on board and is currently being towed into Lampedusa.
Informed sources said that the AFM are also coordinating a search for two other migrant boats which have allegedly launched an SOS but are said to be in Libyan waters, and still far out the Malta search and rescue area.
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If we dont get agressive for our rights.Malta peple are going down sooner then later.Tomorow is to late.
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Don't just like my statement re Lowell - simply vote him in as MEP - spread the word! This is not about racism rather about us remaining Europeans and MALTESE! Do we want to betray our ancestors who died defending Malta through the ages? If aliens need help then help them in their lands and do not let NGO's and religious groups use the racism trump card..they fatten their pockets from it - these parasites the NGO's etc. Whilst these poor humans of a darker skin and so others of lighter skin make a run for freedom! Freedom - meaning modern slavery at low paid jobs and inhuman work conditions!
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One solution only - VOTE IN NORMAN LOWELL IN THE NEXT MEP ELECTIONS ... I shall vote for him with PRIDE!
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Weren't we told that illegal immigrants are a resource? Then why no one (North Africa, Europe etc) wants them? Why should tiny Malta FORCE immigrants to stay in Malta against their will? Let us save them but then let us go where they want. We shouldn't and cannot afford becoming Europe's Ellis Island.
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Send back we got enough blacks as it is beside they will never make good ctiziens i love my country if we keep on taking more of these poeple fifty years from now we will loose our identity example look at Fiji how they took over the country they even had an indian goverment
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Malta is going to be like Jemajka eventualy.The only
way to save Malta is to tell them we are full up,close no more.We use forse if we have to.
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When are we going to stop showing mercy and putting up with these illegal immigrants??? If France, Italy and Malta can come together and decide not to take these illegal immigrants in, wouldn't the word spread around, between the immigrants, and hence they will stop coming? Ghax jekk ha jibqu jigi milqugha, sew mil Italja, min Franza u min Malta, dawn ha jibqu jigu. But if we coordinate together and send them back, then they might stop once and for all, coz they won't risk the high seas, when they know that they will be returned back.
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SEnd them to Sicily they are Italy's responsability.
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Wasn't the new Libyan government, regime call it what you will, supposed to put a stop to illegal immigration?
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Let's put it plain and simple: WE DO NOT WANT THEM NO MATTER WHAT! ...and for the record, skin colour is irrelevant!
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Informed sources said that the AFM are also coordinating a search for two other migrant boats which have allegedly launched an SOS but are said to be in Libyan waters, and still far out the Malta search and rescue area. - So tell the Libyans to pick them up and take them back.
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Libya is now a free country. Send them back to Libya or take them to France. After all, France was one of the African countries colonizing powers.
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Libya is now a free country. Send them back to Libya or take them to France. After all, France was one of the African countries colonizing powers.
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When Italy declared the port of Lampedusa as an unsafe port , I predicted that a similar situation will emerge in the future. This was done by the Italians for a single perpose , to evade their responsability to except these migrants with the excuse that they were rescued in Maltese SAR area .
I appeal to the Maltese Authorities to hold their grounds and do not give in to the Italian Government
and except that these migrants be sent to Malta .
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Malta's Armed Forces have one priority - to defend Malta. They should never become a ferry service transporting illegal immigrants from Africa to Malta.
