In Menton last week, Gérald Darmanin came to announce a new reinforcement of the police in the face of “increasing flows of migrants” at the border between France and Italy. The massive arrivals on the island of Lampedusa in recent days have the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture now considering the creation of a center to accommodate between 150 and 200 people per day in Menton.
According to BFMTV, a site will be requisitioned. It will be entrusted to Civil Protection, which confirms having visited a site this Monday morning at the request of the prefecture. But nothing has yet been done, according to state services. “We are anticipating, but nothing has been decided,” said a spokesperson, contacted by 20 minutes.
8,500 people arrived in Lampedusa in three days
Further information and perhaps confirmation could be communicated in the afternoon, at the same time as the Minister of the Interior is traveling to Rome to discuss European cooperation on the subject of this migration crisis.
France wants in particular to “help [l’Italie] to hold its external border, the first gateway to Europe from North Africa, declared Gérald Darmanin this Monday morning on Europe 1 and CNews. Between last Monday and Wednesday, around 8,500 people, more than the entire population of Lampedusa, arrived aboard 199 boats, according to figures from the United Nations migration agency.