Migrants who have earned the
right to humanitarian protection are to be housed with families
in the Milan area, the city's social-policy councillor said
Monday.
Families will get 350 euros a month under a scheme agreed
between the government and the national association of
municipalities (ANCI), said Pierfrancesco Majorino.
According to Majorino, the scheme is "absolutely
advantageous compared to others as far as cost is concerned."
He said the anti-immigrant Northern League and the rest of
the political right "are obviously crying scandal, but we are
proud of it and we won't stop".
League leader Matteo Salvini on Monday slammed the scheme.
"Milan's Democratic Party-led city council will pay 400
euros a month to anyone willing to put up an immigrant...this is
madness," he said on Facebook.
"A disgrace, this is RACISM towards Italians in
difficulty," Salvini said.
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