The Deputy Procurator General of Palermo, Maurizio Scalia, has told the Italian media that from information received by his office, there are around a million migrants on the coasts of Libya, waiting to cross over.
He was speaking at a press conference about an ongoing inquiry on a transnational network that is organising voyages by non-European persons in the direction of Sicily.
There is, he said, an uninterrupted flow of persons.