‘This town wants to help people fleeing devastation, not receive corpses’
There is shock and dismay on the Sicilian coast as the Italian government ends its Mediterranean rescue mission
From Saturday that operation was officially wrapping up, replaced by Triton, a cheaper, far less ambitious European Union border patrol that people on the frontline of the refugee crisis say will cost lives. “I am very worried, it’s clear that with the end of Mare Nostrum there will be more deaths in the Mediterranean,” said #Luigi_Ammatuna, the mayor of #Pozzallo, where about 23,000 refugees came ashore in the first nine months of this year. “ I want to be the mayor who welcomes people fleeing war and devastation, not the mayor who receives corpses .”
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/01/eu-death-toll-italy-mediterranean
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