Posted on 02/14/2017 2:24:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
AN ITALIAN mayor has blocked the streets around a refugee centre in protest about the number of migrants arriving in his town.
Raffaele Scarinzi, the mayor of Vitulano, ordered bags of sand to be dumped in the streets to block any new arrivals from coming to the town in southern Italy.
Vitulano currently has one SPRAR (System for the Protection of Refugees and Asylum Seekers) centre which houses 30 migrants.
But the mayor claimed there were not enough facilities set up to accommodate any more people and “too many” migrants arriving in the town.
The protest saw the only access route to the accommodation blocked so immigrants could not reach the hostel where refugees were supposed to sleep.
Mr Scarinzi said: "Regarding immigrants, the state must respect the agreements and rules made with local authorities.
“Municipalities that already host one Sprar (refugee protections scheme) can not accommodate other immigrants in privately operated structures.”
The protest came after the arrival of an extra 40 refugees as the migrant crisis continues, and following the closure of the Our Lady of Health community centre.
Mr Scarinzi said: ”We are not racists, but there were no conditions to receive them. It was just a matter of organisation.
"We were the only municipality that had a festival dedicated to refugees, included them in the football team and even involved them in a film that we shot here in Vitulano.”
However, he pointed out, rules must be respected.
The leader of Lega Nord, Matteo Salvini, wrote on Facebook after the protest: "The mayor of Vitulano (in the province of Benevento) closed a road, blocking it to prevent the arrival of new immigrants.
“For some he was wrong, but for me he did well! The mayor comes from the Democratic Party. Is he racist and populist too?”
Eventually, the mayor reached an understanding with officials and it was agreed the 40 migrants will be diverted to another reception centre in Benevento.
Those bigots. The Italians don’t want to pay for the migrants to receive free food, housing, and make them have to work so they can plant bombs. Haters..../s
Wonder if the migrants would the irony if the Italians named the facility “The Andrea Doria reception center”.
This is the end result of a leftist-captured political system, surviving on massive amounts of debt and a completely printed currency.
I understand; we the real USAians don’t want more either.
Migrants & Refugees:
Cancer of the Civilized World.
I hope Italy nips the “immigrant” situation in the bud before it becomes another London or Paris. Or Germany.
Line the streets with bacon, not sand. Bacon always makes things better.
Europes’ leaders are lining their pockets with Xerxes’ gold....I hope her citizens are prepared to start kicking some of their Burgermeisters down the well.
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