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Over 1,000 migrants rescued in 24 hours, AFM involved
Armed Forces of Malta participates in rescue mission of nine boats carrying migrants off Italian island of Lampedusa.
3 January 2014, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
An Armed Forces of Malta maritime patrol aircraft spotted two boats carrying migrants outside Malta's Search and Rescue area. In the rescue operation, 823 migrants were rescued by the Italian Navy from several boats.
An AFM spokesperson told MaltaToday that the army's Hawker Beech King Air B200 participated in the rescue mission of nine boats coordinated by the Italian authorities.
This morning, the Italian navy rescued the refugees from four rickety boats in the Sicilian Channel south of Lamedusa, the stepping-stone island closer to Libya than Sicily.
The nationality of the asylum-seekers, who included 23 women and 46 minors, was not immediately known. Lampedusa is the site of repeated migrant landings and sometimes disasters.
Yesterday, the Italian navy rescued 233 asylum seekers off the coast of Lampedusa after their boat was at risk of sinking.
In October more than 300 African migrants died after their boat sank off Lampedusa while days later, hundreds of migrants died when their boat capsized.
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The eu and the United Nations are washing their hands and dumping their hypocrisy on tiny malta. ! Vera Ahna it-tfal Ta gahan!
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This is a battle...maybe even a war, that Malta cannot possibly win! A flood of refugees, asylum seekers, illegal migrants, call them what you will, was ALWAYS going to be the price that Malta had to pay for voting to join the European Union. The sad part is that what's happening now was so, so predictable from the very beginning!
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Now it has become all SEASONS search and rescue but nobody knows what to do with these bodies except Cecilia Malstromm. So they keep sending them to Europe with no solution in place.What a joke.
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Just send them all back to send the message that they are unwanted and unwelcome to turn Europe into another Africa. As long as even one of them is kept they will keep on coming. Imagine what is going to hepen in Spring and Summer. Malmstrom is sitting pretty in Sweden tellig us and the southern European counties to take them while Sweden sends them back like it did to those 550 that it sent back to Malta. Stop fingerprinting those that make it to Malta and let them lose themselves in mainland Europe. That should teach Mamlstrom and the rest of the dogooders.
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issa irriverendu moda ejjew nigbru il firem biex naghmlu riverendu biex nibatuhom lemm xoghol ghal dawn in nies maawnx morru il pjazza fra diegu il hamrun u arawhom jintelqu lemm u l hawn
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The truth of the matter is that nobody has the foggiest idea how to solve the problems of migration from Africa. What everybody knows very well is that the methods being employed are totally ineffective and are neither solving the problems of Europe nor the problems of Africa. One day or another, the issue is going to explode for Europe is already saturated with African immigrants and many Europeans have had enough. I fear that only something drastic will make a difference and, sooner or later, even the treaties in effect at this time will have to be radically revised. Europe is just postponing the inevitable until politicians with guts gain power and do the necessary.
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There is only one Solution to this invasion "BAILOUT" then Ms Malstrom can take tem to brussel and Sweeden. In May my vote will be just no for the EU, I don't want my country to remain the SKIP for the EU elite. Keep your money and your discriminatory regulation and we can keep ours. These illegal immigrants have more rights than myself who pay thousand of euros in taxes and then I go for a blood test and they are given preference and the Maltese "Cwiec" are catered for after. Is "Malta Taghna Ilkoll", or now Malta belongs to everyone except the Maltese??
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If a push back policy is not applied without any more delay, no matter what the EU Dictatorship or any Local or Foreign NGO says, no one and nothing will stop this invasion by this illegal immigrants. We have to stand up and apply all those measures we feel that are necessary to protect our country from being invaded. This is happening in winter. Who knows what will happen in spring and in summer when the sea is more favorable for these illegal immigrant to make these boat trips?
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If a push back policy is not applied without any more delay, no matter what the EU Dictatorship or any Local or Foreign NGO says, no one and nothing will stop this invasion by this illegal immigrants. We have to stand up and apply all those we feel that are necessary to protect our country from being invaded. This is happening in winter. Who knows what will happen in spring and in summer when the sea is more favorable for these illegal immigrant to make these boat trips?
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What if 10000 or 40000 arrive in a single year where do we (Malta) stand??
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If they arte coming in now in the middle of winter prepare for a MASSIVE INVASION in spring - summer- autumn. They will keep coming in unless they are all repatriated without any exception. Africa is a vast rich continent where they can move from one place to another and not dump themselves on Malta and other European countries.
