Ferrara's far-right anti-migrant
League mayor has caused an uproar in Italy by calling migrants
"a tumour to be eradicated".
Alan Fabbri, a member of Matteo Salvini's nationalist party, was
commenting on the rejection of 134 migrant residency permit
applications in the northern city "almost all on the grounds of
social peril and the illegal status of those who had asked for
international protection".
Fabbri said on Facebook: "Illegals, violent, drug pushers and
serial jaywalkers and rough sleepers who do nothing but make our
city less safe, they can't expect any rights and must only
return to where they came from.
"For us they are neither a resource not persons to be integrated
at our expense.
"They are only a tumour to be eradicated".
Fabbri's comments were condemned by centre-left and leftwing
parties as well as pro-migrant groups.
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