Traumatized Nigerian migrant Lucky (Right) said he regularly witnessed many killing in Libya. The 20-year-old is one of more than 118,000 people to have made the perilous journey from Libya to Italy so far this year. Nearly 15,000 have been picked up off the coast of Libya since 28 August.
“It was a nightmare, ” said Lucky. If many people knew what was going on there, they would not dare come” This year alone, almost 3,000 have perished or been lost at sea. With so many arriving so quickly, southern Italy is feeling the pressure. At the port of Pozzallo in Sicily, a naval ship arrived carrying 700 men, women and children rescued from the Mediterranean Sea
. If accepted, the interior ministry relocates people to various regions across Italy.
“There is killing everyday. I saw killing. I saw a man kill an innocent boy for no reason”
Lucky told us he did not mind where he was resettled in Europe.
“I’m a beggar, I don’t have any choice. I just want protection. I just need freedom.”
But for now, Lucky’s new home is a tent at a migrant centre in Messina. With a European fleet of ships waiting to rescue migrants off the Libyan coast, some fear it has made life too easy for smugglers.
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Posted: at 6-09-2016 07:14 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Una no dey hear word abi? One day sha, ITALY and the rest of the E.U go know wetin to take all of una do, b4 na the white man dey come with ship to Africa pack us go their end go slave, now na we dey go through seven seas and seven mountains with our hard earned money through the storm and rough tides just to go slave for their end....... What a world, chale me I don tire for planet earth sef, I wan move go MARS....
Posted: at 6-09-2016 07:45 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac