A landing port has also arrived for the Sea Watch 3, a week after the first of a series of rescue operations carried out in the central Mediterranean, one of which involved a dramatic shipwreck in which about twenty people would have lost their lives. The smaller of the two humanitarian ships of the German NGO will be able to dock tomorrow in the port of Trapani, in front of which it has been sailing for days while waiting for the «Pos», the safe harbor, to be granted. Instead, it will be a landing port, as has been the case for some time now with NGO ships, in which 201 of the 211 migrants that the Sea Watch rescue team recovered a week ago with 5 different operations in just 24 hours will finally be able to land. A dozen migrants in recent days had been evacuated from the ship due to health problems, with the helicopters and patrol boats of the Italian Coast Guard.
Last Saturday, April 9, Sea Watch 3 had intervened for the sinking of a rubber boat in which, according to the survivors, there were 53 people, many of whom ended up in the water and, in some cases, drowned, as reported. the same NGO which also denounced the presence near the semi-deflated rubber dinghy of a Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat, at the same moments in which migrants were floundering in the water; it is unclear whether she was there to perform a rescue or not. However, the humanitarian ship managed to take on board 34 castaways who are among those who will finally be able to disembark in Trapani tomorrow morning. Exultation on board among the migrants, when in the early afternoon they learned from the Sea Watch team that they will be able to disembark.
Last week, several boats were put overboard by traffickers from both Libya and Tunisia. In those days there were also numerous autonomous arrivals of migrants in Lampedusa, over 800, and an old and rusty fishing boat on Tuesday 12 April arrived just 5 miles from Pozzallo, in the Ragusa area, with 505 people on board. The boat was towed into port. It was a maxi landing like no one had seen for a long time in the town in the South East of Sicily. However, the numbers of arrivals in Italy do not differ from those of last year. As of today, the Interior Ministry reports the arrival of 8441 people since the beginning of the year, there were 8522 in 2021. It is also known that both Libya and Tunisia have carried out numerous operations at sea in those same days with which hundreds of migrants are been brought back