Looking over the most recent data, it seems that the practice of
handing out rejections is once again in fashion at the Sicilian
police stations. Last week there were rejections of 26 Moroccans and
3 Algerians in Agrigento, having arrived at Porto Empedocle on the
ferry from Lampedusa. Along with them there was a Tunisian who was
arrested as a “suspected boat driver”. On the ship connecting the
Pelagian islands and Sicily there were also around 20 foreign
unaccompanied minors, who will have joined the veritable army of
minors hosted by the vast numbers of housing communities in the
Province of Agrigento, even claiming a record for the number of
centres of 'first reception' for minors, opened as usual in a
situation of emergency.
