Urgent: Protest Eviction of Italian Roma living in Milan
Radio Chiriklo (Ukraine) received an urgent e-mail with the request to disseminate the information about eviction of Italian Roma living in Milan.
Please see the information below:
We are the 20 families who immediately after Christmas holidays will be evicted from the regular Roma camp of via Idro in Milan in which we’re living regularly since 26 years. We are well included in the neighborhood in which we live, our children go regularly to school. Many of our ancestors during the Second World War were interned in Italian fascists concentration camps. We are Italian citizens and we do not understand why we have to leave our homes, why our children have to lose the school, their belongings, their friends.
As an alternative solution the Milan municipality offers us the containers of the Social Emergency Centers and Housing Autonomy Centres where the municipality already host the families evicted from the slums (they should be put out on street and leave their place to us after our eviction from our regular homes). In any case, these are temporary, precarious structures (containers of 12-15 square meters for families of 4-5 or more people). We could stay there for mostly one year and in this year the municipality should offer inclusion. We have serious doubts that this could happen (no one Roma family admitted to these centers in the last two years had a job or a house and they ended up on the street). Finally, who rejects the Emergency Centers would only have the forced eviction, the destruction of his house with all his stuff.
We ask the Milan municipality not to destroy our homes until there are no concrete housing and job solutions for us.
We ask you to support us in our efforts to maintain our dignity, to help us not to lose everything, not to be forced to start our lives all over again.
Please send a e-mail BEFORE 10 JANUARY to the Mayor of Milan, Mr Giuliano Pisapia: sindaco.pisapia@comune.milano.it.
In copy to: Marco Granelli, Deputy Major for the Security: Assessore.Granelli@comune.milano.it; Prefect of Milan: ugo.taucer@interno.it; Roma Comunity of via Idro: romviaidro@gmail.com
Radio Chiriklo (Ukraine) received an urgent e-mail with the request to disseminate the information about eviction of Italian Roma living in Milan.
Please see the information below:
We are the 20 families who immediately after Christmas holidays will be evicted from the regular Roma camp of via Idro in Milan in which we’re living regularly since 26 years. We are well included in the neighborhood in which we live, our children go regularly to school. Many of our ancestors during the Second World War were interned in Italian fascists concentration camps. We are Italian citizens and we do not understand why we have to leave our homes, why our children have to lose the school, their belongings, their friends.
As an alternative solution the Milan municipality offers us the containers of the Social Emergency Centers and Housing Autonomy Centres where the municipality already host the families evicted from the slums (they should be put out on street and leave their place to us after our eviction from our regular homes). In any case, these are temporary, precarious structures (containers of 12-15 square meters for families of 4-5 or more people). We could stay there for mostly one year and in this year the municipality should offer inclusion. We have serious doubts that this could happen (no one Roma family admitted to these centers in the last two years had a job or a house and they ended up on the street). Finally, who rejects the Emergency Centers would only have the forced eviction, the destruction of his house with all his stuff.
We ask the Milan municipality not to destroy our homes until there are no concrete housing and job solutions for us.
We ask you to support us in our efforts to maintain our dignity, to help us not to lose everything, not to be forced to start our lives all over again.
Please send a e-mail BEFORE 10 JANUARY to the Mayor of Milan, Mr Giuliano Pisapia: sindaco.pisapia@comune.milano.it.
In copy to: Marco Granelli, Deputy Major for the Security: Assessore.Granelli@comune.milano.it; Prefect of Milan: ugo.taucer@interno.it; Roma Comunity of via Idro: romviaidro@gmail.com
