Two boats from North Africa with hundreds of immigrants on board arrived on Friday night on the Italian island of Lampedusa, after more than 24 hours of respite in which there had been no news of new landings. As reported by Italian media, the largest landing occurred shortly after 20.00 local time (18.00 GMT) from an old boat that is believed to have from Libya.
Italian television channel Sky TG24 issued late in the afternoon on Friday pictures of the boat, which, according to some media, traveled some 600 immigrants, mostly from sub-Saharan origin. The boat, which had also women and children, was sighted in the afternoon on Friday about 20 miles south of Lampedusa and then accompanied into port by boat from the Guardia di Finanza and the Port Authority.
In the other boat that arrived in Lampedusa 50 migrants were traveling, including a woman who had been thrown into the sea off the coast of Tunisia, according to confirmed sources of the Guardia di Finanza. Local authorities had also spotted the boat south of Lampedusa, after it was towed by a boat of the Guardia di Finanza to the dock Favaloro, arriving at around 18.15 local time (16.15 GMT).
Until the arrival of these new ships in Lampedusa were 70 immigrants, who came to the island in recent days in North Africa and Tunisia will be repatriated in the coming hours as contemplated by the agreement signed between the Tunisian and Italian governments. These 70 Tunisians were not eligible for the controversial temporary residence permits provided for by the Executive of Italy, landed on the shores of the country after the signing of bilateral agreement on Tuesday in Tunis.
Last night and were returned to Tunisia undocumented thirty on a direct flight from Lampedusa, while another 1,000 immigrants who were still in the reception center of the island were transferred to Sicily. So far this year have come from North Africa to the Italian coast about 26,000 illegal immigrants, of whom about 21,000 came from Tunisia. 
Italian television channel Sky TG24 issued late in the afternoon on Friday pictures of the boat, which, according to some media, traveled some 600 immigrants, mostly from sub-Saharan origin. The boat, which had also women and children, was sighted in the afternoon on Friday about 20 miles south of Lampedusa and then accompanied into port by boat from the Guardia di Finanza and the Port Authority.
In the other boat that arrived in Lampedusa 50 migrants were traveling, including a woman who had been thrown into the sea off the coast of Tunisia, according to confirmed sources of the Guardia di Finanza. Local authorities had also spotted the boat south of Lampedusa, after it was towed by a boat of the Guardia di Finanza to the dock Favaloro, arriving at around 18.15 local time (16.15 GMT).
Until the arrival of these new ships in Lampedusa were 70 immigrants, who came to the island in recent days in North Africa and Tunisia will be repatriated in the coming hours as contemplated by the agreement signed between the Tunisian and Italian governments. These 70 Tunisians were not eligible for the controversial temporary residence permits provided for by the Executive of Italy, landed on the shores of the country after the signing of bilateral agreement on Tuesday in Tunis.
Last night and were returned to Tunisia undocumented thirty on a direct flight from Lampedusa, while another 1,000 immigrants who were still in the reception center of the island were transferred to Sicily. So far this year have come from North Africa to the Italian coast about 26,000 illegal immigrants, of whom about 21,000 came from Tunisia.
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