Another 106 migrants have landed in the last few hours along the coasts of southern Sardinia . Dozens of them are arriving every day, making the situation at the Monastir reception center and the port of Olbia increasingly unmanageable , where a humanitarian emergency has now emerged.
The first landing occurred yesterday in Sant'Antioco, where a boat carrying 12 people, including a woman and a child, landed . Shortly thereafter , two more landings occurred in the same area, bringing the total number of people to 33. Another 12 migrants were rescued today off the coast of the island by the Port Authority and taken to Cagliari .
And then, again today, another eight men landed in Porto Pino, two small boats with 28 people in total in Sant'Antioco and, finally, another 13 were found on the Chia coast, in Domus De Maria.
All the foreigners were then taken to the first reception centre in Monastir.
These arrivals are placing increasing pressure on a system already on the verge of collapse. The CAS in Monastir is now chronically overcrowded, and from there, the now daily journeys to Olbia continue. Migrants are ordered to leave the island by order of the authorities, but are prevented from doing so because the shipping companies are denying them boarding .
At the Costa Smeralda port, State Police officers and a handful of Border Police officers are trying to persuade dozens of people not to approach the boarding area. There are cancer patients and a young man complaining of leg pain; the municipality is evaluating measures to provide food and water .
This is the paradox of the reception system, which risks creating a veritable open-air migrant center near the port of Isola Bianca , with dozens of foreigners stranded. They must leave the island to comply with the measures to remove them from national territory, but due to irregularities and inconsistencies in their documents, they are prevented from boarding ships. .
