Raggi, Minniti meet for talks

(ANSA) - Rome, September 1 - Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi had talks on Friday with Interior Minister Marco Minniti to discuss migrants and local housing emergency.
    The meeting comes after a police operation to evict hundreds of Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers from a building near Termini Station where they had been squatting in for years caused alarm. The migrants clashed with police when they were cleared out of a nearby square, where they had camped for four days. Aid agencies and leftwing politicians said the migrants should not have been evicted, and subsequently moved on, without alternative lodging being provided. The migrants reportedly refused lodgings outside Rome because it would have meant moving their children out of schools and being split up. Authorities have said they will make properties seized from the mafia available to evicted squatters.
    Italians on housing lists for years regularly claim migrants are being jumped past them. A group of right to housing protestors staged a sit-in near to where Friday's meeting was taking place.