Rescued migrants arrive in Italy after deadly week in the Mediterranean

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Rescued migrants arrive in Italy after deadly week in the Mediterranean

 

 

 

MESSINA: -- Hundreds of migrants dock in Messina, Sicily. They were the lucky ones, after more than 300 hundred others died last week trying to cross the Mediterranean.

 

Some of the new arrivals had survived after their rubber boat had deflated, 97 others were missing, presumed dead.

 

Survivors said that a smuggler had towed them out to sea for two hours, and forced them to hand over their life jackets at gun point, before taking away the engine and leaving them adrift.

 

It is a common ploy of the smugglers to leave their human cargo stranded.

 

Eighteen year-old Abdullae Diallo from Senegal was aboard when the boat capsized. He said they were waiting to die.

 

“Only God saved us, nobody thought we would survive inside that boat, because even when the boat capsized, the wooden planks we put below us were broken. Afterwards the wind took them away and left us with only the tube, we held onto the tube but it started to sink, the only thing we counted on was sinking, now what could we do? We knew that if the whole tube sinks, well, we are going to die.”

 

The Mediterranean is the most dangerous border crossing on the planet. According to the International Organisatin for Migration the death toll has spiked this year, reaching a record high of 4,636 after the latest sinkings, unlikely to be the last of 2016.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-11-21

[tartempion]

Do I see a faceless woman in that picture?
Such people should not be allowed in in Europe together with their families.
Oh, and what about shooting the smugglers?

Apparently, God did not save the other 97 people...

[thai3]

Need to be sent back, have a look around the train station in Rome to see what these 'refugees' do to places.

[cabanlit]

10 hours ago, thai3 said:

Need to be sent back, have a look around the train station in Rome to see what these 'refugees' do to places.

 

Was in Rome at Easter. My jaw dropped at the numbers in the city and, as you say, around the train station and the main street of hotels (both basic and very posh) close by the station. Not a pleasant place to visit anymore, but could probably say that for many of Europe's big cities. Thanks Merkel.

[thai3]

Indeed talk about graffiti , it was all over the place and half way up buildings and the whole area had been taken over, ghetto. Lot of decent immigrants there of course a lot running little grocery shops, but the ones from a certain continent seem to be creating a big problem for the city.

[Saradoc1972]

Should have been rescued back to Libya. Just our beloved greatest Chancelorette of all times, defender of the western world, tells us what's left of Libya government-wise isn't taking them back and we can't make them, because they'd pose a "robust threat" to our European armies. Might as well do away with those then. I totally fail to understand the whole business, I just know it's going to plunge Europe into chaos and oblivion.

[lostinisaan]

 

           I can't hold my breath anymore. Merkel, this freaking idiot, and Ex-Stasi spy did all that they continue to come to Europe.

 

         Mouth to mouth propaganda in Africa how easy it is to become a European is insane;

 

          Many of those camping out were prevented from entering France after French police blocked border crossings last week. Many have been stopped at the Austrian border near the town of Bolzano. Austrian police announced on Sunday that 24 African migrants arrested while trying to get to Germany by train will be returned to Italy. In Switzerland, border police announced that 240 migrants were sent back to Italy over the weekend.

 

  Germany doesn't need any more of these guys. Nor does any other European country. Why's nobody trying to get to Hungary?  Full stop.

 

        https://www.rt.com/news/267160-italy-migrants-eu-problem/

 

 

[lostinisaan]

 

    Psst, not long and we're in Germany and tell them that we had to flee our country.....

 

[nelson bunker]

These young men are escaping war, most of them are doctors (many are experienced proctologists) and astrophysics experts (didn't the Arabs invent algebra?).

They will be paying our pensions.

 

They will end up in the UK, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard who knows well his country said that the Brits are too stupid and that they need new blood...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/peer-lord-immigration-native-britons-bloody-stupid-kerr-migration-a7425336.html