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Migrants: march from Italy to Slovenia to remember victims
Refugees often suffer horrific violence
02 October, 20:48
(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 02 OTT - About 100 people gathered today in
San Dorligo della Valle (Trieste), at the outlet of the last
section of the Balkan route that refugees and migrants take to
reach Europe, for a solidarity march organized by the Oct. 3
Committee on the occasion of the National Day in Memory of
Victims of Migration.
Along the path, in the woods, it is easy to find, explained Mayor Sandy Klun, abandoned clothes and sleeping bags: those who have traveled hundreds of kilometers - who often risking being sent back across the last border - leave their used clothes here to wear clean ones, hoping to go almost unnoticed. Participants in the march donned gloves and carried plastic bags to collect those spoils of toil, hope and suffering as they walked in the opposite direction to the first Slovenian municipality across the border. "The Balkan route," said Gianfranco Schiavone, representative of the October 3 Committee and president of the Italian Solidarity Consortium (Ics) of Trieste, "is traveled by people from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Pakistan: they are often fleeing from countries where violence is devastating, but on their way there is a huge risk of suffering violence, abuse, illegal refoulement. Between 2020 and 2021, he recalled, "Italy and Slovenia also played a role in such rejections, and this in the 'muffled silence' of much of public opinion in Trieste. But even now," Schiavone concluded, "problems remain particularly on the reception front. The march was attended by regional councilor and former mayor of Udine Furio Honsell, president of the Balducci Center Paolo Iannacone - and Daniela Schifani-Corfini, president of the Luchetta Ota D'Angelo Hrovatin Foundation, among others. In fact, a journalism prize is dedicated to the Balkan Route and will be added to the sections already provided by the Marco Luchetta International Prize. (ANSA).
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Along the path, in the woods, it is easy to find, explained Mayor Sandy Klun, abandoned clothes and sleeping bags: those who have traveled hundreds of kilometers - who often risking being sent back across the last border - leave their used clothes here to wear clean ones, hoping to go almost unnoticed. Participants in the march donned gloves and carried plastic bags to collect those spoils of toil, hope and suffering as they walked in the opposite direction to the first Slovenian municipality across the border. "The Balkan route," said Gianfranco Schiavone, representative of the October 3 Committee and president of the Italian Solidarity Consortium (Ics) of Trieste, "is traveled by people from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Pakistan: they are often fleeing from countries where violence is devastating, but on their way there is a huge risk of suffering violence, abuse, illegal refoulement. Between 2020 and 2021, he recalled, "Italy and Slovenia also played a role in such rejections, and this in the 'muffled silence' of much of public opinion in Trieste. But even now," Schiavone concluded, "problems remain particularly on the reception front. The march was attended by regional councilor and former mayor of Udine Furio Honsell, president of the Balducci Center Paolo Iannacone - and Daniela Schifani-Corfini, president of the Luchetta Ota D'Angelo Hrovatin Foundation, among others. In fact, a journalism prize is dedicated to the Balkan Route and will be added to the sections already provided by the Marco Luchetta International Prize. (ANSA).
