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Theresa Maggio

Sicily

Refugees become Volunteers for New Refugees

June 20, 2015
Tags: refugee, Palermo, caritas, help, volunteer, sbarchi, arrivals, immigration, illegal, Africa, mali, ivory coast, ships, mediterranean, port
Last year's refugees helping fresh arrivals at the port of Palermo.
A beautiful story by my favorite La Repubblica reporter, Claudia Brunetto. I translate it here:
They arrived last June at the port of Palermo, picked up on the high seas by a military ship. And since then they live in the parish of Falsomiele, guided by Father Sergio Mattaliano, director of the Catholic charity  Read More 
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Latest wave of refugees saved

June 8, 2015
Tags: Violence, migrants, immigrants, refugess, Italy, sicily, Africa, human traffickers, trafficking, death, murder, awful
Some of the 5,851 boat people saved this weekend and brought to Sicilian ports.
860 refugees reached land at Palermo, another 548 at Trapani. Many are already looking for a ticket to nortern Europe. Over the weekend 5,851 people were saved from the Mediterraneaean Sea. According to souces in Rome the number of immigrants landing since the beginning of the year are ten percent more than in the same time period  Read More 
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Wealthy family saves immigrants' lives at sea, regularly

May 17, 2015
Tags: MOAS, refugees, immigrants, Africa, Italy, ship, Phoenix, save, lives, humanitarian, wealth, good, people
The private rescue ship Phoenix in action in the Mediterranean
From La Repubblica 16 May 2015 online edition:

The 120-foot ship Phoenix, working for the non-governmental organization MOAS, pulled into the port of Messina, Sicily with 405 migrants aboard.MOAS stands for Migrant Offshore Aid Station. The United States ship belongs to a wealthy couple, Regina and Christopher Catrambone, involved in a philanthropic and humanitarian mission to  Read More 
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Reuters calls it 4,800 refugees rescued

May 4, 2015
Tags: washington post, reuters, sicily, immigrants, refugees, mediterranean, rescue, emergency, forever, Africa
Rescue operations in the Strait of Sicily were busy this weekend. Click here to read the story in the Washington Post.
The Washngton Post published a Reuters report saying Italy now claims that 4,800 boat people were rescued over the weekend.
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CBS News wakes up from stupor

April 26, 2015
Tags: it's about time, Imigration, death, Africa, sicily, mass migration
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-death-in-the-mediterranean/
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"Inhuman violence"; traffickers clubbed migrants to death

April 23, 2015
Tags: Violence, migrants, immigrants, refugess, Italy, sicily, Africa, human traffickers, trafficking, death, murder, awful
A rubber raft full of refugees being towed by Italian authorities. Click here to read it in La Repubblica.
Some of the survivors of the raft that sank 80 miles off the coast of Libya, killing 400 by drowning, said that their traffickers had beaten several of their fellow travelers to death with clubs because they did not obey. One man was beaten to death at the farm where the refugees are stockpiled until setting  Read More 
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650 immigrants land safely in Sicily

April 22, 2015
Tags: immigrants, clandestine, Africa, Palermo, sicily, Italy, Frontex, bossi-fini law
At the Augusta reception center
450 landed safely today at Augusta, Sicily and another 200 at Pozzallo, Sicily.
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700+ immigrants dead in single shipwreck

April 19, 2015
Tags: shipwreck, immigrants, Africa, sicily, UE, bossi-fini law, Frontex, murder by law
The Portuguese merchant ship King Jacob sent to help the immigrants lost at sea
The Worst Ever Migrant Tragedy. From La Repubblica:
The traffickers had packed more than 700 immigrants like animals on a 20-meter old wooden fishing boat and set them sailing across the Mediterranean from a point east of Tripoli, Libya. One of them had a satellite telephone and alerted the Italian National Center of the Coast  Read More 
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194 young Africans saved and arrived at Trapani

April 18, 2015
Tags: Imigration, sicily, Africa, trapani, tripoli, gommone, rafts
194 20-something Africans disemark at Trapani
They left on two rubber rafts from Tripoli but they came from Senegal, Nigeria, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Siera Leone and the Ivory Coast. All men but for one woman ho had married her husband, who accompanied her, this year. The immigrants were piled on top of each other in the  Read More 
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Mayor Leoluca Orlando: Europe Like Pontius Pilate

April 18, 2015
Tags: Europe, wash hands, immigrants, emergency, Migration, Africa, sicily, Italy, Palermo, tragedy
First aid help for immigrants arriving at Palermo's port on rescue ships
Mayor Orlando says Europe has washed its hands of the tragedy and abandoned Sicily and Italy to its own devices when it comes to handling the huge continuing wave of refugees.
Three rescued Somalis, picked up by Maltese mercantile ship, arrived at Palermo and were hospitalized for health problems. Altogether 91 Somalis arrived at Palermo's  Read More 
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Migraton flow to Lampdusa

April 14, 2015
Tags: Migration, illegal, clandestine, immigrants, bossi-fini law, pushback, deaths, mercy, change law, European Union, mediterranean, refugees, Africa, war, despots, massacres, Religious Freedom, escape, Hope, scared, Fear, danger, graveyard, water, sea, swim, bad boats, trafficking, human trafficking
Some people take upwards of two years, working along the way to save money to pay traffickers, before they step foot in a wretched boat or raft bound for Lampedusa.
Once again, there are now 1400 refugees and immigrants for whatever reason in an intake camp with only 250 beds. The Lampedusa holding center had been closed last year because of scandalous overcrowding, poor conditions, bad management and degrading treatment of arrivals (making people strip naked publicly to be sprayed for scabies and such). Volunteers --  Read More 
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