Mayor Orders Soil Pile Roadblock To Keep Migrants Out

The mayor of a small Italian town has ordered a pile of earth be dumped on the road leading to a residence to stop more migrants moving in. Vitulano, in the province of Benevento in southern Italy, already hosts a SPRAR (System for the Protection of Refugees and Asylum Seekers) centre housing 30 migrants, but Mayor Raffaele Scarinzi took exception when the government tried to move a further 34 migrants into a private residence he said was suitable only for 12. -- More...

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