To worry Giorgia Meloni it is not the absolute figure, those 16,000 landings in 2024 which are down 51% compared to the same period last year, but rather the sudden surge in arrivals in recent weeks, especially from Tunisia.
Melons in Tunis, what is behind the new agreement to reassure the impatient Saied
by Leonardo Martinelli
Just when it seemed that the agreements with the Tunisian president Saied had begun to produce the desired effects, multiple departures of small boats began again from the coasts of Sfax, bringing 5,587 people to Lampedusa (337% more than the previous month).
And therefore, if it is true that since the beginning of the year the migratory flow from Tunisia (18,588 arrivals) has halved compared to the first months of 2023, the signs of the last four weeks raise more than one alarm bell. And this despite the fact that the Tunisian authorities communicate every week that they have stopped a significant number of people who were about to embark for Italy (almost 13,000).
Meloni fourth time in Tunisia for migrants. But from Saied there is still blackmail: more money or more departures
by Leonardo Martinelli
The IOM also renews its alarm over departures from Tunisia, noting that the decrease in crossings unfortunately does not correspond to a similar percentage of decrease in victims: just counting the known shipwrecks (but as we know, especially those of small boats are often phantom shipwrecks) since the beginning of the year there have already been 497 deaths on the Central Mediterranean route, with -14% compared to 2023 which does not correspond to the -51% of landings, demonstrating how the equation less departures less deaths isn’t exactly accurate.
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