That's good to know. I keep hearing about the hordes of "refugees" from Africa and the Middle East descending on Italy, but I hope those accounts are exaggerated.
Not much of that going on in Sicily. Yes, “refugees” have been flooding into Lampedusa, an island off the Sicilian coast for years. But most of them end up moving on to other EU countries where the benefits are far more generous. In my town there are around ten of them, mostly from Africa, about 50/50 Christian to Muslim. African Christians are generally good people; hard working and they don’t cause any grief.