Since the beginning of 2023, more than 100 thousand migrants crossed the Mediterranean Sea and arrived in Italy, the same amount was recorded for the entire 2022, according to La Repubblica.
In 2022, 48 thousand migrants recorded the arrival of 48 thousand migrants in Italy, and 33 thousand in 2021.
Since the beginning of 2023, when trying to get to Italy, more than 2 thousand illegal migrants have died.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Italy Matteo Piantsedi said that the record number of illegal immigrants is “the result of epoch-making migration pressure associated with the dramatic socio-economic crisis in Tunisia.”
In June, the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ilva Johansson said that the number of migrants who go on a dangerous journey through the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to the shores of the EU countries increased by 600 percent.