Ongoing violence on migrants. Isolated incidents or epidemic intolerance?

Foreigner unaccompanied minors hosted in Portopalo's B&B "Aloha", which is used as a first reception centre, repeatedly denounced  to be insulted by the local population along the street. Just yesterday we reported the testimony of the foreigners who live since eleven months in Palagonia's SPRAR centre, in Catania's district. The hosts of the centre underwent repeated violence attacks by some of the local youth, sometimes even at the fisical level.

Egyptian and Lybian migrants arrive in Portopalo

lanota7.it - It was a coastguard patrol boat which went to the rescue of a fishing boat carrying immigrants from Lybia and Egypt. They had been spotted by a ferry in the Sicily Channel, 20 miles off the Sicilian coast. The military helped board all 68 of them (15 of whom were minors) and they were then taken on to Portopalo di Capo Passero. Patrol boats equipped with anti- immigration devices were used in the rescue operation. All of the migrants are men aged between 15 and 25, of Egyptian or Lybian nationality.

Huge arrival of immigrants in the Province of Syracuse

From the newspaper Giornale di Sicilia
A wooden vessel has arrived at Portopalo di Capo Passero with around a hundred migrants aboard, thought to be of Somalian and Eritrean origin. According to witnesses, some of the migrants dispersed into the surrounding area. Around 100 migrants, claiming to be from Somalia and Eritrea, were located yesterday evening after having arrived on the coast near Portopalo di Capo Passero, Syracuse. Among the group, there are 25 women and some children. Initial reports state a wooden boat about 12 metres long arrived on the beach near the archeological site with no fewer than 230 people aboard. Therefore, more than 100 migrants remain unaccounted for.