A friend used to winter vacation there but gave up a few years ago because of the Muslim invasion:
MailOnline excerpt;
: 'Palermo is no longer an Italian town. It is no longer European. You can walk in the city and feel like you’re in Istanbul or Beirut.' Immigration to Italy soared by 90 per cent in the first three months of the year. The migrant population in Ballaró, the part of Palermo where the shooting took place, has risen from approximately five to 25 per cent since the migrant crisis began.
There is widespread concern in Italy that the number of new migrants exceeds the country’s capacity to cope - and the mafia is its biggest and most dangerous critic.
The mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando said: ‘In the past, when the Mafia was more powerful, it prevented any immigrants from entering the city. Until I was 30 years old, I never saw an African or Asian in Palermo.
I live 25 miles east of Palermo. There are sections of the city with a lot of African and Pakistani immigrants but trust me, the city is overwhelmingly inhabited by indigenous Sicilians. Immigration has been slowed to a crawl over the last year or so. Sicilians are very anti-foreigner. I know that from personal experiences - hell, I’m 3/4 Italian and 1/4 San Marinese, look very Italian and still I get friction here. In my town, which has appx. 8,000 inhabitants, appx. 15 of them are African “refugees.” The locals watch them like hawks and seem very leery of them.