Tempers flare as temperatures soar at Rome’s ‘Gloomy Street’ migrant center – IOTW Report

Tempers flare as temperatures soar at Rome’s ‘Gloomy Street’ migrant center

ROME (Reuters) – Tempers are flaring between increasingly frustrated residents and boat migrants mostly from Africa using a well-known transit camp in central Rome as temperatures soar this summer.

Italy is taking in thousands of boat migrants every week for a third year in a row, and friction is common between them and those who live along the path many take on their journey toward northern Europe.

Set up by volunteers, the Baobab center, by Rome’s Tiburtina train station, was shut down by police in December in the wake of the Paris attacks and because the European Union wants Italy to stop migrants from moving on, not help them to do so.

But Baobab volunteers quickly set up a camp on the street in front of the old shelter with tents and chemical toilets, serving three meals a day, and migrants have flocked there in their thousands.

“We can’t open our windows because of the stench,” said Valeria, who lives with her six-year-old son and husband next to the camp in Via Cupa – Gloomy Street in English.  MORE

8 Comments on Tempers flare as temperatures soar at Rome’s ‘Gloomy Street’ migrant center

  1. I understand EU law says refugees must remain in the country where they first land and are not free to roam the entire group of countries shopping for the best hand outs. Of course, what does the agreed upon law have to do with the way the EU is managed?

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