In the first three months of 2023
police in Trieste traced around 2,600 migrants and refugees who
had entered Italy via its northeast border with Slovenia, local
prefect Pietro Signoriello said on Wednesday.
This is more than four times the 600 people traced in the same
period in 2022, the prefect added.
"The numbers are increasing" and the search for "new solutions
for reception" is "continuous", including by relocating new
arrivals within the region, said Signoriello.
The interior ministry has made "huge efforts" and "we have
already moved about 300 people, but many more are arriving", he
added.
"The central issue therefore becomes one of access," continued
Signoriello.
"We will see what the Declaration (of the state of emergency)
will consist of and what further possibilities there will be to
respond to this phenomenon, which is about illegal immigration,"
he concluded.
On Tuesday the government declared a state of emergency on
migration allegedly in order to ensure more effective and timely
responses in terms of the management of migrants and their
accommodation on national territory.
The state of emergency has been declared throughout the country
for a period of six months.
Italy's northeast border is the entry point for migrants and
refugees transiting via land along the Balkan route from Greece
to northern Europe.
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