Parts of Rome 'turning into no-go areas due to sanitation and security issues caused by migrants' claim local businesses
- Sanitation concerns due to migrants camping at Rome's Tiburtina station
- Led to protests by businesses, clashes with police and outcry from right
- Also a lot of scabies at Milan station caused by migrants sleeping rough
- Italy is struggling to accommodate an endless wave of boat migrants
- Italian PM now said Italy will 'hurt' Europe if it ignores the migrant crisis
Parts
of Rome are being turned into a 'no-go area' because of concerns about
security and sanitation linked to the huge surge of migrants in the
city, local businesses have claimed.
Migrants camping near Rome's Tiburtina station have been forcibly cleared by police amid protests by local businesses.
As
the build-up of refugees at the Italian capital's train station
increased, it led to ugly clashes with police, an outcry from the right
and fresh calls from Rome for EU help.
There are health and sanitation concerns at Rome's Tiburtina station caused by refugees sleeping outside
Refugees outside the train station in the Italian capital which has led to protests from local businesses
A growing number of migrants have gathered together at the station which has put increasing pressure on Italy
In Rome, a former canteen is now being fixed up to accommodate the migrants away from the station's main traffic.
The railway has also agreed to renovate another space nearby as a more permanent solution to tackle the ever-growing problem.
Health officials said there have been more than 100 cases of scabies in recent days and 500 since the beginning of the year.
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Hundreds
of migrants, mostly Eritreans arriving from southern Italy after being
rescued at sea, have also been sleeping in and around Milan's Central
Station.
Officials
last week closed a migrant reception area overlooking the city train
station's main entrance hall because of increasing health and sanitation
concerns.
Giorgio
Ciconali, a doctor working at Milan Central, said: 'There is a lot of
scabies and it is being spread by them sleeping rough together, but
there is nothing to worry about for people passing through the station.'
Migrants
have also been forced to sleep outside the station overnight, as
officials decide how best to shelter the desperate refugees.
The mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia said: 'You can see that at the Central Station there is no more degradation.
'Now
we have to resolve the problem as regards the refugees to have a
situation that doesn't give the image of people sleeping on the ground
without the assistance we had hoped for.'
Refugees congregate together outside
Rome's Tiburtina station as the country struggles to bring the
immigration crisis under control
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