12:30am: Most of the migrants are arriving on the small southern island of Lampedusa. Port authority spokesman Vittorio Alessandro told SkyTG24 that the journey could soon become even more dangerous. “We are expecting a worsening of conditions and this puts the lives of people who have set sail at risk,” he said.
12:26am:Mr Maroni, a member of the anti-immigration Northern League, has been among the Italian officials calling for EU help to handle the huge increase in the number of people entering Europe through Italy.
12:22am: Italy’s Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has said Europe is “being invaded” by migrants fleeing unrest in north Africa. “Around 8,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in the past month – a lot more than the number who came over the whole of 2010,” he told reporters.
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