More migrants taking Mediterranean route

Political unrest in North Africa this year resulted in a heavier influx of undocumented immigrants toward the central Mediterranean and a drop in illegal arrivals in Greece, according to Frontex. Out of a total of around 33,000 would-be migrants arrested across the European Union for illegal entry in the first three months of this year, some 22,600 were stopped on the Italian borders, chiefly on the island of Lampedusa, Frontex’s Deputy Executive Director Gil Arias Fernandez told a press conference in Athens on Tuesday.
(14.06.2011) Kathimerini English Edition
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