'Deliberately fabricated' migrant disaster in Trieste - NGO

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 24 - The unfolding "humanitarian disaster" in Trieste in relation to the arrival and reception of migrants and refugees travelling to Italy along the overland Balkan route from Greece has been "deliberately fabricated", a local NGO said on Thursday. "In Trieste, the terminus of the so-called Balkan route, a humanitarian disaster is unfolding that has been deliberately fabricated, with a level of public irresponsibility that I have never seen in my life," said Gianfranco Schiavone of the Consorzio Italiano di Solidarietà (ICS).
    Schiavone said that since the end of May, no arrivals have been transferred from the northeastern border city to reception centres in other parts of the country, putting the already inadequate local facilities under further strain.
    "There are 500 abandoned people, with an increase in (the number of) unaccompanied minors, families, vulnerable cases and the sick", he added.
    Many of the people arriving in Italy via its northeastern border with Slovenia are fleeing war and persecution, and they have often also suffered abuse and maltreatment in transit countries along the route. (ANSA).