LAMPEDUSA, Italy - Tunisian boat refugees randalierten Monday on the Italian island of Lampedusa, in protest against their imminent deportation under a controversial deal between Rome and Tunis last week found.
"Freedom!" "Freedom!"shouted some of the migrants on a connection are set out in the hundreds. Some of them started a small fire in the Center which was quickly taken by the Fire Department and the housing fled dozens.
Some of among others later in the prison immigrants.
Lampedusa measures only 20 square miles (7.7 km2) and is closer to North Africa as on the Italian mainland. More than 25,000 migrants arrived in fishing boats from North Africa since the beginning of the year and most have been moved to detention centres on the Italian mainland.
That the second flight flew two aircraft with dozens of migrants from Lampedusa to Tunis during the day despite protests by the deportees, delayed.
A first Planeload of deported left Italy for Tunisia on Sunday with around 30 migrants aboard escorted by about 60 police officers.
In the meantime two boats with 226 migrants on the island were on Monday, to around 1500 the number of boat people currently on Lampedusa.
One thing between Rome and Tunis last week agreed Italy to grant six migrants residence permit that before April 5, were Tunisia the removal of any arrival after this time agreed.
Around 1,000 of migrants in Lampedusa are believed be to Tunisians; the others are refugees from sub-Saharan Africa, which was the escape of Libya have.
Italy has the European Union in General and especially to the immigration deal not France accused. The issue topped the agenda of a heated meeting of the Minister of the Interior in Luxembourg.
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said it was dealing with the wave of migrants up to Italy and find a solution with the Tunisian authorities to reach people from Europe's shores.
"We can not many economic migrants accept arrival in Europe by Italy." That is why we expect the existing legal rules Italy to comply with and his duty in talks with the Tunisians, "said Friedrich."
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday said 80 percent of the more than 21,000 Tunisian migrants who have arrived since the beginning of the year of friends and relatives in France, Tunisia's wanted to join former colonial ruler.
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