TRIESTE – Migrants evicted from the Silos. As announced in recent days – with an order from Mayor Roberto Dipiazza – the operation was put into practice in absolutely calm conditions. That after many years the Silos situation had become unacceptable, especially for a civilized and cosmopolitan city like Trieste, was a clear fact. The enormous dilapidated building next to the railway station, devoid of any sanitation service, could not continue to be a place of refuge for hundreds of immigrants arriving at the terminal of the ‘Balkan route’. Therefore, after years of controversy and clashes, including political ones, the police intervened and did so cleared transferring migrants elsewhere. As the Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi anticipated a few days ago, announcing: “It won’t be a blitz”, the operation was painless, managed with great tranquility and professionalism.
Migrants, the Silos cleared
Those who wanted to escape control – because, like many, they consider Trieste to be only a stopover on the journey towards Central Europe – therefore had plenty of time to leave the Silos, while those who had their documents in order and asylum requests already submitted, wanted take advantage of the opportunity to have decent accommodation, they were ready with backpacks and trolleys. Overall, there were around eighty migrants in the building who were joined by a few dozen other migrants. The situation had become unsustainable with the ownership of the building, Coop Alleanza 3.0, on the one hand, the Municipality on the other and in between the hospitality associations and civil society.
Health workers from Asugi also intervened and visited the migrants under the gazebos erected for this purpose this morning, where identification and administrative procedures were also carried out. In a couple of hours the Silos was emptied and journalists were given access. Originally the migrants were supposed to be transferred to a facility on the Trieste Karst, Campo Sacra, which however is not yet ready. Therefore many were taken to other places, even outside the region, such as in Lombardy.
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