A youngster creates a heart with his fingers as the ship that saved him and 94 other people off the coast of Libya last Wednesday stretches down the dock of the port of Marina di Carrara: the same child who, with his mother, would be among the first to get off the Ocean Viking an hour and a half later, at five o'clock in the afternoon. "Tuscany has the human face of people who embrace those in need, according to Eugenio Giani, president of the region. Hospitality is in the DNA of the Tuscans: a few months ago, with the Ukrainians and today with those arriving from the sea". Someone inquires, "Controversy with the government?" "Since too many years - he responds - there has been a political consensus on immigration. Yesterday, as I do now, I abstain from exploiting human lives and confine myself to stating that Tuscany will always welcome anyone in need with wide arms and a kind heart ". 95 migrants were transported, including one burned by chemicals: probably kerosene. There are thirty-eight minors, including thirty-three unaccompanied minors (all over the age of fourteen) who will be housed at an unusual receiving facility built up in the region. The remaining sixty-two will be dispersed around the remainder of Italy, maybe even in Tuscany.
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