Sicilian Authorities: Ukrainian Skippers and Mediterranean Seas

sicilian authorities: The last leg of their journey, a cramped week's sail through the Aegean and Mediterranean seas aboard a cerulean 50-foot yacht, the Polina, piloted by three Ukrainian skippers, cost 7,000 a head, according to Hamilton Spectator. It dropped them in Sicily in relative style. The family of six had paid about 96,000 all figures US to travel from Afghanistan to Turkey. As migrants go, this was luxury class. Since the beginning of the year, the Sicilian authorities have registered 125 migrants who have arrived on yachts and sailboats, mostly piloted by Ukrainian skippers, a lucrative and growing trend. It was not the first time that Carlo Parini, the police chief inspector against illegal immigration in the southwestern port city of Syracuse, who met the family in April and recounted their story, had seen such a thing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.