Newly-elected Rome Mayor Virginia
Raggi on Friday said a solution will be found "next week" to
relocate dozens of homeless migrants after the capital's Baobab
migrant reception center was closed last December.
Speaking to reporters at the Prefecture where she attended a
meeting on the issue, Raggi said the migrants could not camp in
the street in "inhumane" living conditions.
"We will understand with the prefect where they will go",
the mayor said.
Roughly 40 migrants from North Africa, Eritrea and Ethiopia
who were staying at the Baobab center in Via Cupa near the
Tiburtina station are living on the street after the center,
which also provided meals, was closed.
Local authorities said the center had to be shut down
because it was under court order to be handed back to its
private owner but promised the migrants would be relocated to
other reception centers in the city.
Shortly before it was closed, in late November last year,
police raided the center and identified 23 migrants without
legal documents as part of tougher security measures following
the deadly November 13 terror attacks in Paris before the start
of the Vatican's Jubilee Year on December 8.
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