Italy’s interior minister, Marco Minniti, is poised to propose that hundreds of buildings that have stood empty and abandoned for some time ought to be recycled into housing for migrants who’ve been tossed from their own homes.
He’s also suggested that properties seized from mafia members could be used for the same reasons.
We’re talking 600 buildings here — 600 buildings that could perhaps be used for Italy’s own citizens in some way.
The Local has the story:
Italian daily Repubblica reported that 600 empty buildings in various Italian cities had been identified by Minniti’s team as potential places to relocate people, many of whom are migrants, who are evicted from illegally occupied buildings.
Minniti has also put forward the idea that properties confiscated from the mafia could be used as relocation centres.
The new guidelines are in response to the eviction of 800 migrants from a building in Rome ten days ago, that resulted in clashes between minority communities and the police.
On the morning of August 19th, police rushed into the building near Rome’s Termini main train station, giving the 800 people inside a mere 15 minutes to vacate.
The building had been peacefully occupied since 2013 by mainly refugees and asylum seekers from Eritrea and Ethiopia, some in the country for as long as 15 years.
“I left everything behind,” a 30-year-old refugee told AFP on condition of anonymity.
On Thursday, authorities returned to evict the remaining people, using water canons and batons to forcibly remove the hundred or so refugees still on the premises.
The violence quickly escalated, as the squatters responded by throwing gas canisters and rocks at police.
Top cardinal Pietro Parolin later condemned the violence “on both sides”, while images of the clashes went viral in Italy.
One video which sparked outrage showed an official saying: “Those people have to disappear, too bad for them. If they throw something, break their arm”.
While opposition parties on the extreme right welcomed the evictions, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) voiced “grave concern”.
UNHCR urged Italian authorities to “find an immediate solution for the people currently sleeping under the stars and ensure adequate integration measures for those with a right to international protection”.
But relocating the Rome refugees has proved problematic. Italian authorities have proposed to relocate the refugees to housing about 75 kilometres (50 miles) from Rome, which would delay enrolment for children already registered in Roman schools.
And the city’s leftist mayor has opposed the relocation, saying he has already welcomed 40 asylum seekers in a town of 3,100 people.
Several hundred people, mainly leftists and migrants, demonstrated in Rome Saturday against the evictions.
More than 600,000 people from Africa, Asia and the Middle East have arrived in Italy since 2014.
As it has become harder for such migrants to reach other European countries, Italy’s reception facilities have come under strain and the centre-left government, facing elections next year, is under pressure on the issue.
Interior Minister Marco Minniti, who has ultimate responsibility for the initial eviction, has recently overseen a series of controversial moves aimed at ending the crisis.
These include steps to curb the activity of charity and other privately funded boats rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean and Italian naval support for Libyan coastguard efforts to intercept boats headed for Europe.
But Italy has proven to be a stable country for refugees and asylum seekers – 40 percent of whom are approved for a residence permit though thousands still wait for a decision.
Once approved, refugees go through a six-month integration process where they learn Italian and are offered job and education resources.
But many find themselves on their own because there aren’t enough places available. And those who do manage to find jobs in a country with 37 percent youth unemployment may not be able to find adequate housing.
“In Italy, we live like animals,” an Eritrean refugee told AFP on Wednesday last week after the building was partially cleared.
The 28-year-old, who requested anonymity, railed against EU rules that prevent him from joining family in Sweden or in Belgium.
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi blamed the current immigration situation on “years of negligence,” adding that the “absence of serious national policies” has “created a war between poor people”.
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Its takes Patriots like Hungarian govt to tell the muslims and Left/Liberal pro-islam loons to get out. They expelled dutch ambassador for his pro-islam remarks http://bit.ly/2gh6A72
THAT is what a country needs if you want to protect it from becoming another Islamic hellhole.
It’s NOT just Hungary, but the Polish have also stated “There is NO place in Poland for Muslims!”
Why doesn’t Marco Minniti take the job as building manager for one of the buildings. There, he can help the refugees get settled, make sure they have enough hot water, valet service and satellite tv for every apartment. I’m sure the Italian people would approve of that, right.
“In Italy, we live like animals,” an Eritrean refugee told AFP on Wednesday last week after the building was partially cleared.” Um, could it be that you live like animals, because you ARE animals? Good excuse. Just because they live in poverty, doesn’t mean their living areas have to be worse than pig pens. If they’ve already proven they can’t even maintain basic living standards, what makes the Italian authorities think they will improve with housing that is given to them. If anything, it will become even WORSE. But, that’s italy’s problem. ‘Keep taking more, Italy. We’ll keep laughing at you.’
Easiest and best solution is to first stop importing more muslim problems, then deport the ones italy has got.
This article states that some of the migrant squatters evicted in Rome had been in Italy for 15 years. I guess they’ve been too busy committing crimes, and just haven’t had time to integrate, train for a job, etc. Yet, Italian pols are feverishly importing thousands more every week.
italian politicians are not known for having any foresight or intelligence. They prove this daily.
When will we hear our leaders say to “migrants” what the vast majority of their own people think: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. NOT NEEDED. NOT WANTED. NOT WELCOME. YOU ARE GOING BACK. I’m not holding my breath.
europe should stop mass (or any) migration, immigration and asylum sexual emergency(s) seekers; otherwise end of euro money gone but more mixed races (more mixed than just mixed) with no religion or maybe mozzie but but all blacks with whites working the trenches and the arabs / coloureds working the banks/shops, etc etc
I never thought too highly of Italians. Now I think even less of them. Idiots.
Apparently the Italians don’t understand, that Muslims throughout the World, possibly with the exception of some ultra rich in Saudi Arabia, have always lived LIKE PIGS!
Eating them might be like a homeopathic remedy. Spam anyone?
I’m saying it over and over. The death of the West. It started with leftist ABORTION and OVER POPULATION scare stories. Now you have to import foreign seed. You were bamboozled.
So, it means your DEATH. Goodbye…….
Just keep acquiescing to evil and you’ll be punished with more evil. It wont be long before the Muslims invade the Vatican.
Coffins and caskets are much cheaper, hell garbage bags will do the trick.
We need indoor designers of the like of Prada, Gucci and Armani. A bit kinky also Versace to make the houses of refugees more likeley. (www.aramanihotelmilano.com)
Send them back. it would cost the same, less, if you count the lives potentially saved from jihad.
Why don’t Italy’s leaders make room for the migrants in their own homes? Why not share their wealth?
Why not? Give them homes on rent. Don’t pay any welfare – make these savages to work, as Europeans do, for their living.