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Airlift to Lybia is finished

Agrigento, Italy - On Saturday the last transfer which took 90 immigrants to Tripoli

After the last take off on Saturday, when an Alitalia MD-80 leaved from Lampedusa Airport to Tripoli with the last 90 illegal immigrants on board, the airlift with Lybia is finished: the island hospitality center, which in the last days hosted until 1257 immigrants, now is empty. So it silenced also all the debate about the legitimacy of the non-EU immigrant forced repatriations (see for detail...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 104964
Rome, Italy, 10/11/2004 12:57
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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