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Italian president calls for more decisive EU action on migrant crisis

2015-04-18 53 Dailymotion

Migrants, including a pregnant woman and children, arrived in the Italian port of Palermo in Sicily on Saturday after being rescued at sea the day before.<br /><br /> The Somali refugees are among at least 700 people due to arrive on Saturday after being spotted on numerous boats.<br /><br /> Around 13,000 migrants have been rescued over the past week alone, with about 1,000 people drowning so far this year.<br /><br /> Immigration centres around Italy are struggling to cope with the influx. <br /><br /> Daniel Albanese, an immigration worker with the NGO Caritas, said: “The reception centres in our territory (Biella) and around the country are almost full. <br /><br /> “So this new influx of arrivals that we’ve seen since Easter are really testing the limits of the entire system.”<br /><br /> At least 44 suspected traffickers have been arrested by Italian officials over the past week. <br /><br /> The country’s president, Sergio Mattarella, has repeated the call for more decisive action on a European level to cope with the huge numbers fleeing war zon

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