The migrant emergency shows no sign of abating, but the real alarm is for future scenarios. With the arrival of spring and the waters more easily navigable, the reception system could not handle the large number of arrivals expected by the Italian security apparatus.
The intelligence speaks of 685 thousand "irregular" migrants ready to leave the Libyan detention centers to land on the coasts of the Peninsula.
The figure, explains the Corriere which gives the news, is underlined by the weekly reports on immigration sent to the Italian government.
To understand the extent of the phenomenon, which would also trigger the trafficker alarm, just think that in all of 2022 arrivals - still held back by the pandemic, especially in the first months of the year - were 104 thousand.
Even more gloomy is the scenario prefigured by some government sources, the arrival of 900,000 Tunisians in a few months.
And it is precisely from these premises that Giorgia Meloni's pressing on the European Union starts. The government, in addition to waiting for the promised funding, hopes that Europe will strengthen patrolling in the Mediterranean (now the Turkish and Lebanese routes are also concerned). If the naval blockade promised several times during the electoral campaign is an unfeasible chimera, Palazzo Chigi at least expects greater attention from Brussels to the hotspots in Africa and the Middle East.
(Unioneonline/L)
