Nearly half of the 25,000 people who have landed on the Italian coast since January come from Tunisia. For several months the transalpine intelligence services have been concerned about the risk of terrorist infiltrations.
Eclipsed last spring by the health crisis and the economic crisis, the migration crisis resurfaced in Italy this summer. Migrant arrivals to its shores have increased 148% in the past nine months. An increase in particular of those of Tunisian nationals whose number has multiplied by 4 since the beginning of the year.
According to the Italian Ministry of the Interior, they represent almost half of the 23,571 people who have arrived in the peninsula since January 2020. Figures which could be higher since they do not take into account “ ghost landings ”, following spontaneous departures on makeshift boats. The points of arrival are mainly Sicily and the island of Lampedusa.
