Maritime police this Monday rescued 50 migrants, including 12 children, who were on three boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the Italian island of Pantelleria, said the police, who have already rescued 233 people in such a situation since June.
The Maritime Police, on a mission in the Mediterranean as part of Operation Themis by the European agency FRONTEX, received an alert on Monday morning about the presence of two ships with migrants on board, the National Maritime Authority (AMN) explained. .), in a press release.
“On arrival at the scene, the Maritime Police intercepted two boats with 23 men, two women and three children, who showed signs of dehydration and fatigue and without life jackets”, who were rescued to the port of Pantelleria, where they were waiting for the Italian authorities,” explained AMN .
In the afternoon, maritime police units received information about another migrant boat off the coast of Pantelleria, which launched an operation that resulted in the rescue of 22 more people, including three women and nine children, also taken to Pantelleria, he stressed.
The NCIS has already rescued 233 migrants since June 2023, the same source added.
Since June 14, the Maritime Police has been participating in Operation FEMIS, which is its sixth participation in the mission, the purpose of which is “to control and monitor the Italian and external maritime borders of the European Union, in the fight against border crossings.” frontier crime.
Since 2017, when she began participating in Operation Themis, the Naval Police have carried out more than 500 missions, also detailed in the AMN press release.
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Source: CM Jornal
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