“I am a photographer and I find myself at the port of Barcelona to get the last ferry to Italy destination Civitavecchia and then in a camper up in Milan, where I live. Masks and gloves worn only by italians, others do like it was nothing ( including the employees of the ferry operators Grimaldi)”.
Tiziano Comi is one of the hundreds of italians who in these hours are trying desperately to return to Italy with the very few connections still in place after the cutting of flights by most airlines.
Hundreds of people, that are addressed to the Republic to ask for the involvement of the foreign ministry, only in Spain, 300 forget the Canary islands that, in addition to not find a way back in Italy, do not even know how to do, because many of the hotels,residences or private houses have closed the door to them. And many do not have even the money to go forward. There are elderly people and families with children. The Italian embassy in Madrid and consulate in Barcelona has indicated he has set up a task force to help compatriots to find travel solutions, the triangulation overhead with other european countries to Italy or the sea link of the Grimaldi to Barcelona or Genoa, by posting it on the website of the embassy a series of races that would be in the program until 25 march.
But many of the people who come to the Republic write that in reality, the last ship of the Grimaldi as the departure is tonight.
difficulties in Spain, there are also several Italian students. Giulia Tomasello says: “I’m in Leon, where from Monday, schools and universities will be closed. We have not received any communication from the Italian authorities, nor do we know if flights are scheduled for repatriation. Also my university, that of Trent, we ignore kindly. We are stuck in a country that gradually it will stop as it has done in Italy”.
And a hundred of italians, is also blocked on the island of Sal in Cape Verde. “The health situation here could plummet in a very short time, writes Francesco Carli, doctor of Gorizia – outside of the Italian ones all the tourists of the other european Countries continue to flow without control, and the ability of health services is only limited to basic interventions. Flights from and to Italy have been suspended. We asked for help to the Italian embassy in Dakar to the ministry but the response has been to provide with our means.”
still have Not been able to return the many italians still in Morocco. Also they ask up to now in vain the intervention of the foreign ministry and also the embassy has suggested to resolve the matter with the airline that has disrupted flights communicating that are not provided for return flights.
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