They are the 87 Afghan refugees who arrived from Rome in the evening Covid hospital of the hospital of the sea in Napoli. Once the quarantine is over, the refugees will go to live in different provinces of Campania.
“We will make every effort to evacuate as many people as possible, as long as conditions allow: I hope that the August 31 deadline can be postponed.” It is in the words of the minister of Defense, Lorenzo Guerini, a sign of the dramatic nature of the evacuation plan from Afghanistan that has seen 1.500 soldiers engaged for days in an airlift between Kabul and Rome. A real race against time. To date, in fact, 3.804 people (of which 3.744 Afghans) have been made safe since the beginning of operations Aquila and Aquila Omnia. According to the latest bulletin released by the Ministry of Defense, 2.722 people have already arrived in Italy, of which 2.662 are Afghan citizens: of these, 933 are men, 828 women and 901 children.
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Today, meanwhile, arrivals at Fiumicino airport continued. Three aircraft landed at the Roman airport with a total of 482 people on board. This small army of desperate people is made up of family groups, coming from Herat and Kabul. “Some categories have been identified: first of all, the collaborators who in various capacities have related with the Italian presence in these 20 years”, said Guerini, reiterating that at the same time checks are being carried out on everyone to guarantee safety conditions for our country.
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Today the second group destined for Emilia-Romagna arrived in Piacenza: it is 80 people. In the evening the first arrivals also in Tuscany. “It is about 100 people, others will arrive in the next few days,” explains the President of the Region Eugenio Giani. The Jewish Community of Florence is in contact with the Municipality “to evaluate the possibility of welcoming some children in our nursery school if there is a need.”
About a hundred have arrived at the base of the Montescuro Air Force detachment, in Celico (Cosenza), about 90 will be welcomed in Campania, 80 in Puglia while about twenty are headed to the Marche. Four families have reached covid hotel in Parma and for its part the diocese of Naples says it is ready to welcome a quota of refugees. Finally, the relatives and sisters of Basir Ahang, the Afghan actor starring in the film Constance Quatriglio “He looks like my son”.
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