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\n<\/span><\/p>\nA boat carrying 347 illegal migrants from Tunisia has reached Italy, raising fears of a new wave of crossings after a week of bad weather.<\/p>\n
The fishing boat brought the migrants to the tiny island of Lampedusa, less than 160km (100m) across the Mediterranean from the Tunisian coast.<\/p>\n
Thousands have arrived since mid-February, amid unrest in Tunisia.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, said there were fears of illegal migration from Libya too.<\/p>\n
There were, he said, 1.5 million illegal migrants inside Libya.<\/p>\n
“They are now fleeing to the west [Tunisia] and to the east [Egypt] but I expect in the future they could also head north [towards Italy],” he told parliament.<\/p>\n
Mr Maroni, a member of the anti-immigration Northern League, warned of a “catastrophic humanitarian emergency” when he met fellow EU interior ministers in Brussels last week.<\/p>\n
Other EU officials said Rome was over-reacting to the crisis across the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n
German TV crew<\/span><\/p>\nBad weather and resumption of Tunisian naval patrols had been discouraging migrants from making the journey.<\/p>\n
Those who arrived early on Wednesday were mostly Tunisians, Italian officials said, but they also included two German TV journalists, who had filmed the crossing.<\/p>\n
The Germans were questioned by police and released.<\/p>\n
Four women were also among the migrants.<\/p>\n
Italian police placed the migrants in a reception centre, officially designated a “centre for identification and expulsion”, which is still housing migrants from the wave which arrived last month.<\/p>\n
They will be screened to see if they are asylum applicants or simply economic migrants looking for jobs. <\/p>\n
If it is the latter, they will eventually be sent back to Tunisia. <\/p>\n
Italy says a huge number of people could be heading in its direction from North Africa and it wants other European countries to help share the burden. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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