Thread: Number of migrants arriving in Italy rises 12% in July

Number of migrants arriving in Italy rises 12% in July – EU agency

Home | Justice & Home Affairs | News By EurActiv.com with Reuters 12 août 2016 15:45:42 UTC+2 (updated: 12 août 2016 17:16:47 UTC+2)

The number of migrants arriving in Italy rose in July, according to Fronted. [Wikimedia]

More than 25,000 migrants arrived in Italy in July, 12% more than in the same period last year, EU border agency Frontex said on Friday (12 August).

Most of the migrants who made the trip across the Mediterranean from North Africa were Nigerians and Eritreans, Frontex said.

The number of migrants arriving in the January to July period was stable compared to last year at 95,000.Frontex said the quality of the boats people smugglers were using to transport migrants was deteriorating.

“In recent months, poor quality rubber boats accounted for four out of every five vessels used,” Frontex said in a statement.“

Many of the migrants spoke of being forced onto the dinghies and small wooden boats despite fearing for their lives.

”Barred from travelling further north by closed borders in France and Switzerland, many of the migrants are stuck in Italy.

More than 3,000 migrants are stranded in the financial capital Milan, its mayor said, as Switzerland and France tightened border controls.

Migrant arrivals through Greece were about 97% lower in July than last year, mainly due to a European Union deal with Turkey to stem the flow.



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Send them right back. Europe is missing Gaddafi now, he would never allow such crossings. hillary, o and EU the enablers for this to happen. They knew he held all the power on the Northern coast of africa. He was actually behaving well too considering things he did decades ago.

There was no sane reason to take him out but then again, a great way to migrate the overpopulating, disease filled, low IQ, often mentally unstable due to inbreeding poor to wealthier countries, spread islam globally thru this dastardly UN refugee program and Europeans, Americans be damned. The globalists sure have their "acts", "laws" in place to ensure a non stop flow. They continue to demand these "refugees" be taken in - even though they state they are not "war torn" but "economic refugees".