This photo released by the Italian Premier's press office, Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, center, and Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, left, for an inauguration of a property called Mineo. On Tuesday, February 15, 2011 visited the former military housing now vacant to become home to the new arrivals.
The residence of the Oranges in addition to being the solution to meet emergency landing, it could also be used for refugees and asylum seekers: "The idea of the government - said Maroni, during a press conference in the prefecture in Catania - is that Mineo to accommodate all applicants, even those, about four thousand, which is currently distributed in Cara (Centers for asylum seekers) in all of Italy. "
An idea that, as the head of the Interior Ministry added, is the President of the Council. The residence is a complex of 404 apartments, built about 18 thousand square meters in the district of Cucinella Mineo and can accommodate seven thousand people. The village was inhabited for a decade by U.S. Marines, serving the nearby base in Sigonella, and their families.
It seems with the revolts that are occurring on North Africa shores, some folks are fleeing to Italy.
Over 5000 Tunisians have landed in parts of Italy.
Yesterday, Italy appealed for urgent EU aid to halt a wave of illegal immigrants fleeing Tunisia as hundreds more arrived by boat. The new arrivals on the island of Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost point, took to more than 5000 the number of undocumented immigrants intercepted by coastguard patrols and brought to the tiny outcrop in the past five days.
The number of expected refugees rather than illegal immigrants is to climb even higher, quickly. It is reported over 80,000 are headed to Sicily island.
"We await the arrival of 80 000 Tunisians in Sicily." It 's a total number of emergency, which estimated that the Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, who raised the alarm-immigrants in Lampedusa island and today was with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
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