Here are the new migrants from Lampedusa: straw hat, luggage and poodle in tow

Eleven people, eight men and three women, aboard a rubber dinghy wearing sunglasses and straw hats against the sun. In his hands cigarettes and smartphones. With them also a nice white poodle and some luggage. Tourists visiting the beautiful island of Lampedusa? No, migrants irregular immigrants from Tunisia who were intercepted off the island and then transhipped on the Coast Guard boat, which led them to the Madonnina pier.

Between gusts of landings of the last few weeks on the island of Agrigento now collapsing, this is perhaps the most surreal as can be seen from the video released on the Facebook page Local Team. They all seemed to be vacationers ready to enjoy the beauty of the island and non-migrants recovered on a boat in difficulty in the middle of the sea. If this landing aroused great clamor for the peculiarity of the poodle who kept the migrants company during the crossing, these are certainly not the only landings of these hours. A tight turn from the landing of the eleven (plus one) Tunisians escorted by the Coast Guard, the men of the police have identified on the rocks not far away other 7 migrants who have just landed independently.

They managed to get to Portu ‘Ntoni, next to Cala Croce, and after abandoning the small boat used for the journey they were entering the island. Lampedusa’s situation is dramatic, the hotspot is collapsing and in the night the citizens, tired of the continuous arrivals on the island, also tried to block the port. It was a timid gesture of rebellion against a now degenerate situation, which seems to be no longer possible to keep under control. “I was 15 years in Italy, then I went back to my country and now I have come back to Italy again because I like it. Hope to find one work and freedom because in Tunisia it is full of prisons, it is full of disgust“said the woman who owned the poodle, to the microphones of News Mediaset.

Arrived in Lampedusa with a large fashionable straw hat, dog on a leash on her shoulders, she is very far from the tearful image of migrants shown in most cases. The Tunisian woman wanted to reconstruct her journey: “We have bought, all of them, a boat. Each of us gave some money and we drove to get here“. Today, the men of the Guardia di Finanza have identified another boat, this time off the small island of Lampione. 19 Tunisians, including two minors, were heading to Lampedusa.

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