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Ivrea and six municipalities ready to host Afghan refugees

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The kitchen of one of the apartments made available by the Municipality of Ivrea (photo Barbara Torra)

The Deputy Mayor Piccoli: “We contacted the prefecture and made three of our apartments available”

The Canavese is mobilizing to host Afghan refugees. Several Municipalities, after the first arrivals in Settimo Torinese, have come forward in the wake of the willingness shown by the Anci (National Association of Italian Municipalities) to the Government to collaborate in welcoming Afghan refugees according to the widespread model of the Sai network (formerly Sprar) present in various realities of the territory, starting with Ivrea, passing through Chiesanuova and Chivasso.

The municipal administration of Ivrea made contact with the prefecture and communicated the availability of three apartments, which could accommodate about fifteen people. «An apartment is ready and furnished – explains Deputy Mayor Elisabetta Piccoli – and it is what we had left in the availability of the hospital’s medical staff during the pandemic. Two other apartments, also in the central area, had been used as part of the Sai project (formerly Sprar, for refugees, ed) and have now returned to the availability of the municipal administration. We are therefore working with the furnishings to make them available ». Piccoli adds that contacts have also been made with some voluntary and assistance organizations active in the area to organize support for reception. Ivrea is one of the first municipalities in the area to formalize the availability of the three apartments. In recent days there had been some direct requests to the administration to intervene. The council minorities (Pd, Movimento 5 stelle and ViviamoIvrea) had sent an open letter to the mayor Stefano Sertoli and presented an agenda: “Welcoming refugees is a moral duty even more than a legal duty foreseen by the Geneva convention because can remain indifferent to the human tragedy that is unfolding in Afghanistan and we must help the Afghan population with a concrete commitment to do their part ”.

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The open letter closed by asking the Municipality to make itself available to the Government together with the other Municipalities. Another call to intervene came Monday from the Migrants Observatory. The formalization of the provision of three apartments arrived on Tuesday. In the note, a clarification resulting from a synthesis of the various political positions within the administration that sees Lega, Forza Italia and civic lists in the government of the city: “Afghans are certainly political refugees, a very different status from that of irregular migrant or cheap. Having said that, it is unthinkable that only Italy and the municipalities can accommodate thousands of Afghan refugees, considering that in recent months the landings of economic migrants have already multiplied ».

But other municipalities are also moving. Ellade Peller, mayor of Nomaglio, made the communication of the Anci run among the first 45 citizens of the Inrete consortium, which she chaired, collecting the availabilities. «At the moment we joined as Nomaglio – says Peller – and then Albiano, Banchette, Salerano e Settimo Vittone. I wrote to Anci Piemonte on behalf of these municipalities, asking for support and accompaniment to structure the project. We are small municipalities, we do not have a Sai and therefore we need support ». Savino Beiletti, president of Cissac di Caluso, also disseminated the Anci communication to the twenty-one municipalities of the consortium: “At the moment it has joined Strambino“. «The junta – confirms the mayor Sonia Cambursano – has given a mandate to the officials to make contacts to temporarily make available, if necessary, one of the currently free public housing houses. At the same time, we are discussing with the consortium to agree on an organic initiative ».

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