Italian mayor asks to swap migrants for earthquake victims

‘A mayor in northern Italy has asked to accommodate victims of the recent earthquakes in housing which had been earmarked for migrants.
Last week, mayor Giorgio Valoti from the far-right Northern League party, complained about the arrival of 59 migrants in Cene, a town of 4,000 in Bergamo.
He used road signs usually reserved for traffic updates to inform residents that the migrants had been assigned to the area without his being notified. The group were allocated to housing belonging to the Church, with an additional 90 expected to arrive in the coming days.’
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