Another 57 migrants have landed in the last few hours along the coasts of southern Sardinia . Dozens of them arrive every day, making the situation at the Monastir reception center and the port of Olbia increasingly unmanageable , where a humanitarian emergency has now emerged.

The first landing took place in Sant'Antioco, where a boat carrying 12 people, including a woman and a child, landed . Shortly thereafter, two more landings occurred in the same area, bringing the total number of people to 33. Finally, 12 migrants were rescued off the island's coast by the Port Authority and taken to Cagliari .

All the foreigners were then taken to the first reception centre in Monastir.

These arrivals are placing increasing pressure on a system already on the verge of collapse. The CAS in Monastir is now chronically overcrowded, and from there, the now daily journeys to Olbia continue. Migrants are ordered to leave the island by order of the authorities, but are prevented from doing so because the shipping companies are denying them boarding .

At the Costa Smeralda port, State Police officers and a handful of Border Police officers are trying to persuade dozens of people not to approach the boarding area. There are cancer patients and a young man complaining of leg pain; the municipality is evaluating measures to provide food and water .

This is the paradox of the reception system, which risks creating a veritable open-air migrant center near the port of Isola Bianca , with dozens of foreigners stranded. They must leave the island to comply with the measures to remove them from national territory, but due to irregularities and inconsistencies in their documents, they are prevented from boarding ships. Shipping companies prevent them from boarding, applying the National Maritime Security Program, which means they are denied boarding without documents .

They show the police orders and ask for explanations, also because, if they don't leave Sardinia and then the national territory within a week, they could even be reported for failure to comply with an order from the authorities.

Thus the pressure shifts from south to north. From Algeria to Sulcis, then to Monastir and finally to Olbia .

The union's alarm

And the provincial secretary of the Cagliari Regional Administration (SIAP) , Mauro Aresu, has once again raised the alarm, calling the situation in Southern Sardinia a veritable emergency of landings. "Landings continue unabated, and immigration and forensic staff are forced to work grueling shifts (with hundreds of hours of overtime per capita, unpaid and deferred to future years) due to staffing shortages. There is a concrete risk to the health of the workers, who, unfortunately, currently appear to be unprotected, but this cannot continue. Politicians, the heads of the Prefecture and Police Headquarters must demand immediate reinforcements from the Department, so that the staff should not have to pay for the organizational dysfunctions and shortcomings that emerged as soon as the new legislation on migrant detention and the subsequent opening of the Monastir hotspot came into force, which, moreover, structurally appears totally inadequate to contain the ongoing emergency ." The staff assigned to the surveillance of the structure also appear insufficient, having been forced to draw from the limited staffing of the various Police Headquarters offices", reads a note from the union representative.

(Unioneonline/L)

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