Migrants who set out in dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers on Tunisian shores have disembarked on three tiny Italian islands in a span of two days, officials said.
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00:00 "An open wound in our humanity" - that's the cry from Pope Francis speaking from St.
00:07 Peter's Square Sunday on the recent shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and the migrant crisis
00:12 as a whole.
00:13 The Pope has called for politicians to heal this wound in a spirit of solidarity and fraternity.
00:20 The mayor of Lampedusa Island has also been vocal.
00:23 He says Europe is not pulling its weight to support the Italian island.
00:28 Mayor Filippo Menino says the EU is slow to intervene and cannot stand idly from the sidelines
00:34 as people die.
00:35 "We are in the middle of the Mediterranean and we cannot turn our faces if there are
00:39 people asking for help.
00:40 It is logical that Lampedusa cannot be left alone.
00:43 We need a European intervention to save the sea."
00:49 At the same time, Europol is trying its best to clamp down on human traffickers.
00:54 In Spain, a joint police operation ended with the arrest of 19 people from a criminal organization
01:00 allegedly engaged in the smuggling of Syrian migrants to Spain, Germany and Norway.
01:04 According to investigators, people trying to reach Europe are paying up to 20,000 euros.
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