The State Police has subjected two Algerian smugglers of 25 and 27 to a halt for having brought in Italy 30 migrants on board a dinghy.
Disembarked in Lampedusa they were then transferred to Pozzallo and following the investigation of the Squadra Mobile of Ragusa, the Public Prosecutor of Agrigento issued a decree against them.
Determinant is a video-selfie shot by one of the migrants of Moroccan origins who, in order to document the phases of travel, has repeatedly framed the two suspects while they conducted the boat.
According to the witnesses, the two arrested led the boat from Libyan coast.
The migrants were hosted at the Hot Spot in Pozzallo to be visited and identified by the Scientific Police.
Among the identified also a Moroccan woman who was arrested by the Squad Mobile of Ragusa because she entered illegally despite having been expelled from Italy. The woman has precedents for crimes against property and had already been rejected for attempting an irregular entry to Trapani in the 2017.
33 i stopped (minor 1) in 2018; 112 i stopped in 2017 (minor 7); 200 the stops of 2016 (minor 29).
How to arrive in Italy
At 23.20 8.11.2018 during the day, the CP 319 patrol boat of the Lampedusa Coast Guard commanded an inflatable boat about 7 meters long, loaded with migrants in Italian territorial waters.
In consideration of the conditions of overcrowding of the boat, the rescue boat declared a SAR event and proceeded to the transhipment of the total 32 migrants, leading them to the Favarolo di Lampedusa pier. The rubber boat used by the migrants was towed to the dock and subjected to seizure by the unit intervened.
Once disembarked in Lampedusa all the migrants recovered were exclusively subjected to pre-identification procedures and photographed. In the following hours the migrants were transported on board two separate patrol boats to the port of Pozzallo, so that they were then brought to the hotspot. The disembarkation at Pozzallo took place at 23: 50 of the 09.11.2018 and the identification phases lasted throughout the night of the 10. Together with the 32 migrants, then other 58 migrants have landed for a total of 90, following other events will be managed by the patrol boats stationed in Lampedusa.
After the ritual health operations, the migrants were transferred to the local Hotspot for the conclusion of the operations already started in Lampedusa by the colleagues of the Police Headquarters of Agrigento and in particular by the Police Force of the Ragusa Police Headquarters which handles the photosetting procedures.