Italy - Immigration crisis- Nicola Carlone Vice Admiral of italian Coast Guard

Nicola Carlone, Vice Admiral of the italian Coast Guard, chief of Italy's department of maritime security for the Mediterranean sea, is portrayed in the operational centre of the Italian Coast Guard in Rome. On April 23, the European Union submitted to pressure from Italy and Malta and held an emergency summit to address the immigration crisis in the Mediterranean. Between January and April, more than 1,750 migrants died in shipwrecks at sea, a death toll 30 times higher than that of the same period in 2014. Over the past year and a half, Italian ships have rescued more than 200,000 people in the Mediterranean Sea. (Photo by Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis via Getty Images)