Don’t worry, the UN is to the rescue!
And the radical Left and crony capitalists (those who benefit from the government teat) all say ”let em in!”
Influx of migrants across Mediterranean has reached ‘Biblical proportions’, Italy’s navy chief warns, as criminal gangs wreak havoc on the high seas
- Adm. Giuseppe De Giorgi says migrants into Europe grown ‘exponentially’
- Says number of migrants entering Italy by boat grew 300 per cent in 2013
- Comes as Angelino Alfano warns half a million migrants waiting in N Africa
- Since October last year almost 19,000 migrants have landed in Italy
By HANNAH ROBERTS
PUBLISHED: 11:56 GMT, 11 April 2014 | UPDATED: 15:00 GMT, 11 April 2014
The Mediterranean has become ‘another Somalia’, Italy’s naval chief has warned, as criminal gangs importing migrants to Europe by the thousand wreak havoc on the high seas.
Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi, head of the Italian Navy, said that the influx of migrants had grown ‘exponentially’ in the last few months to reach ‘Biblical proportions’.
It comes as the UN today said that an estimated 6,000 Syrian and Eritrean migrants, including women and newborn babies, have been rescued by Italy’s navy in four days, while thousands more asylum seekers keen to reach Europe have gathered in Libya.
Italy has been forced to step up military efforts to match the surge in trafficking operations, he said, but was fighting a losing battle.
Desperate: A boat packed with African migrants approach the coastline of Lampedusa, Italy, the gateway for illegal migrants entering Europe
‘Like Somalia’: Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi (left), head of the Italian Navy, made the comments after Italy’s interior minister, Angelino Alfano (right), warned that more than half a million migrants are ready to set sail from North Africa
The emergency comes as Italy’s interior minister, Angelino Alfano, warned that more than half a million migrants are ready to set sail from North Africa.
Since October last year almost 19,000 migrants have landed on the Italian coastline, roughly a ten-fold increase on the year before. British experts believe one in five continue on to the UK.
