600 Tunisians Flown Home from Italy
Six hundred Tunisian illegal immigrants who arrived in Italy by boat have been deported in a week, the interior ministry announced Sunday.
They were put on several flights from Palermo, Sicily, under an agreement signed on April 5 between Tunis and Rome arranging the systematic deportation of Tunisians arriving illegally.
The flood of immigrants from Tunisia had dried up immediately after the accord but recently resumed.
According to official statistics by the end of July Italy had registered 24,769 arrivals from Tunisia, in addition to 23,267 nationals from sub-Saharan Africa fleeing the conflict in Libya.
Source: Agence France Presse
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