Lampedusa
Proper noun
Meaning
Lampedusa
The largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia.
Examples
A few weeks ago, boats carrying a few thousand Tunisians arrived on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the wake of the fall of the Ben Ali regime.
Investigators believe Issaoui arrived illegally in Europe on Italy’s Mediterranean island of Lampedusa on September 20. He then arrived at the mainland Italian port of Bari on October 9 before coming to Nice just one or two days before the attack.
Migrant Aouissaoui, 21, arrived in Europe by boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa on September 20 before being told to leave Italy.
Migrants are seen in a file photo at the immigration center on the southern Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy.
When I once heard Mesfun Hagos saying that even if the Lampedusa tragedy had become powerful due to extensive media coverage, that worse things had happened during Ghedli era, I shook my head in utter disbelief.
Closer to Africa than Europe, Lampedusa had been a target for economic migrants for some time following tighter security at other European entry points, particularly the Morocco to Spain route.