The Cigala Fulgosi based in Tripoli to the rescue of a sinking boat
(B2) Far from the media attention, migrants and refugees continue to flee Libya... and to be welcomed in Italy.
Italian navy patrol boat Cigala Fulgosi rescued 36 people on Thursday (11 May), while MareJonio from the NGO Rescue Med rescued 29 others, including several pregnant women, 4 unaccompanied minors and a baby. Those recovered were repatriated to the Italian ports of Augusta and Lampedusa.
An intervention 75 km from the Libyan coast
The Italian sailors were on a mission when they discovered, " about 75 kilometers from the Libyan coast “says a press release from the Italian Navy, “ a small boat carrying 36 people without life jackets, sinking, and in imminent danger ».
A ship responsible for protecting Italian interests in Libya
the patrolman Cigala Fulgosi provides remote protection for the vessel Capri as part of Operation Mare Sicuro. Moored in the port of Tripoli, it provides both protection to Italian personnel (military and diplomatic) present in Tripoli and technical and logistical assistance to ships of the Libyan Navy and Coast Guard. It also patrols around the extraction platforms of the oil industrialist ENI present off the Libyan coast. Thus participating in the effort undertaken, very discreetly, by the Italian government to support the government of Prime Minister Fayez el-Sarraj.
(NGV)
