from Libya is being a real flight of foreigners. It's a race against time before the situation even more precise and which involves the international community to take out of the country on fire thousands of compatriots caught by the popular uprising against the regime of Gaddafi. An evacuation in progress by any means especially aircraft and ships, civilian and military. Although every country has organized itself with means, the evacuation is almost collegial in the sense that, in order to take them away from all Libya as soon as possible and with less damage, no distinction is made in the country membership. In the African country are tens of thousands of foreign nationals who are there for various reasons. Of these at least 3,600 are European. The EU is concerned about the fact that they may become hostages to the Libyan regime to collapse now. Mostly it is workers who were in the African country on behalf of foreign companies. In large part, after the outbreak of the popular revolution against the Libyan regime of Gaddafi, they were pretty much left 'free' by their companies. Free to do what? Without help, without good support in place, most of them she found herself being tossed around left and right without knowing what to do and where to go. Overwhelmed by the pressure of events, that after ten days of riots, which began on February 20 last year, is making a record of harsh repression by the regime. A brutal and bloody repression of the regime in Tripoli which is claiming thousands of victims. Fortunately, some companies have provided assistance to their employees by starting the evacuation. One of these is the Brazilian construction company 'Odebrecht', one of the largest construction companies in Latin America, which has in the African country has more than 3 thousand employees of different nationalities, of whom almost 200 are Brazilian. The company said it still have 2,749 employees in Libya of various nationalities. Faced with this emergency a number of countries have been alerted and they promptly avviato le procedure di rimpatrio dei propri connazionali rimasti bloccati in Libia. L'Unione europea, Ue, si è mobilitata ed ha chiesto ai Paesi membri e ai Paesi extra comunitari un appoggio navale per l'evacuazione dei circa 6mila suoi cittadini. In queste ore si sono mobilitate navi da guerra della marina militare italiana, francese, tedesca e di altri Paesi membri. Mentre sono state allertate l'aviazione spagnola e le truppe speciali britanniche per azioni nel deserto. Anche le unità di intervento rapido dell'Ue, circa 1.500 militari, sono pronte a intervenire per operazioni umanitarie nel Paese africano. Nel frattempo, dalla Gran Bretagna è stato inviato a Tripoli un C-130 Hercules della Royal Air Force che ha evacuato oltre 50 cittadini britannici that have been added to the 200 who were evacuated from the Benghazi military ship which then Cumberland, now joined the British Navy destroyer York. Greece also sent to Libya three of his Greek Air Force C-130. The three planes have returned more than 200 of about 400 Greek nationals who were in Libya. The Ministry of Defence greek also sent off the Libyan coast, the Frigate Psara to serve as back up to the evacuation. From Germany, to evacuate its citizens are, two frigates and a ship set sail for tactical support. While the airline company Lufthansa, which has suspended all flights to Tripoli, reported to have evacuated from the African country in recent days at least 700 people. A French military plane with 165 foreign nationals on board, including 152 in France, is instead landed in Paris yesterday. In France at least 500 have returned so far in France. A military plane sent from Tripoli to the Netherlands but has managed to evacuate 42 foreigners, including 9 in the Netherlands. Turkey has however, announced that it has repatriated from Libya on fire 25 thousand thousands of Turks in the African country. Among them there were also hundreds of third-country nationals. Even China has offered to evacuate citizens. Yesterday, two Chinese commercial ships in the evacuation of thousands of Chinese citizens from Libya, about 4,500 of 15 thousand in the African country, have also embarked dozens of Europeans among them a score of Greek. On board the two vessels were evacuated as well as some citizens Thai, Sri Lankan, Italian and Romanian. Towards the coast of Libya is also directing a South Korean warship temporarily detached from the anti-mission maritime piracy in the sea off the coast of Somalia. Among the countries heavily involved in the evacuation of their nationals in Libya there is, in fact, even South Korea The Asian country this morning in Tripoli has also sent three charter flights can carry 700 people. An operation that should allow this to repatriate most of the 1,500 South Koreans found in the former Italian colony to 575 by reducing their presence in Libya. A former Italian colony also evacuated 339 citizens of Russia back to Moscow aboard three planes. While the U.S. sent a ship to evacuate American citizens in the port of Tripoli is blocked because of bad weather that keeps it from sailing. On board there are 118 of about 650 U.S. citizens in the African country. On board with them, however, even a hundred other foreign nationals. There are about 200 Canadians repatriated from Libya so far. Their escape was made possible by the availability offered by Britain, Spain and USA. Italy has also prepared a plan for the repatriation of their countrymen in the African country. This morning, the destroyer 'Mimbelli' and the amphibious ship 'San Giorgio' Italian Navy were anchored in the bay in front of the port Misurata in Libya. Immediately games are the evacuation at least 200 Italians. Unfortunately, in this case to slow down the operations of the adverse sea conditions. In the meantime, is preparing to set sail from the naval base at Augusta another vessel of the Italian Navy, the 'San Marco'. "The repatriation of our compatriots are proceeding smoothly. But there is a military plan to rescue in case of danger. We are prepared to any eventuality, "he said in recent days, the defense minister, Ignazio La Russa. Meanwhile, yesterday the first Italian Air Force planes have landed at the airport of Pratica di Mare, a military airport south of Rome, carrying hundreds of Italian in fuga dalla Libia. A bordo anche personale ONU ed altri cittadini stranieri. Si è trattato di 9 inglesi, 3 francesi, 10 tedeschi, 9 austriaci e 10 sloveni. Con loro anche dei cittadini croati e polacchi e il capogabinetto della Fao, Hervè Leveune. In tutto sono un centinaio i cittadini stranieri rimpatriati dalla Libia grazie ai voli Alitalia o aerei militari italiani predisposti dalla Farnesina. Si tratta per lo più di britannici, francesi, sloveni, croati e polacchi. Ieri però, anche il racconto di un cittadino italiano che ha raccontato della sua fuga da Tobruk, città della Cirenaica in mano ai rivoltosi, verso l'Egitto per poter raggiungere l’Italia. Una fuga durata un giorno intero attraverso i rumori di scontri e posti di blocco. Un cittadino italiano che ha raccontato di essere stato lasciato solo dal suo Paese e di essersi salvato con propri mezzi e l’aiuto di un amico libico. La sua non è una denuncia isolata, ma tanti cittadini italiani riusciti a fatica a rientrare in Patria hanno raccontato l’assenza di contatti e di aiuti. Secondo quanto reso noto dalla Farnesina, fino a ieri sera, erano 1.100 gli italiani che sono stati riportati in Italia con voli operati in collaborazione con Alitalia e il ministero della Difesa. Sono quindi almeno 400 gli italiani ancora da rimpatriare dalla Libia. Di molti di loro si sono persi i contatti. Forse sono persi nel marasma della rivoluzione libica. Le preoccupazione sono alte per 15 italiani che si trovano in una località nel Sud del Paese. Il group is isolated and has remained with nothing, no food even after they have been assaulted and robbed.
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