600 Tunisians Flown Home from Italy

Six hundred Tunisian illegal immigrants who arrived in Italy by boat have been deported in a week, the interior ministry announced on Sunday.

They were put on several flights from Palermo, Sicily, under an agreement signed on April 5 between Tunis and Rome arranging the systematic deportation of Tunisians arriving illegally.

The flood of immigrants from Tunisia had dried up immediately after the accord but recently resumed.

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