Genoa – In Genoa, unaccompanied minors have gone from 231 in 2019 to the current 338, 150 more than in 2020. Of these, 73 are placed in hotels in the historic center, “due to unavailability of other structures”, as reported by the group leader of the Pd Alessandro Terrile.

“The Municipality of Genoa, in particular the Social Policies Directorate, is at the forefront in taking care of unaccompanied foreign minors, whose presence in the area has had a worrying surge during this year, as recalled today in classroom the commissioner Rosso in response to the notes of M5S and Pd – we read in a note released by the managing director for social policies of the Municipality of Genoa Mario Baroni – This is an impressive number, which has grown exponentially in the last semester. We did not stand by and watch, as someone would like to suggest, but we took action by calling third sector associations to collaborate and activating all forms of assistance in the area. We have brought the situation to the attention of all institutional tables, including at the central level, but up to now, the response has not been sufficient to meet the emergency we are facing in Genoa as in all municipalities, large and small, so much so that the Anci has also mobilized, hoping for a strong and concrete intervention by the Ministry of the Interior “.

“For our part – continues the note – despite the understandable difficulties expressed by the variegated world of the third sector taking care of unaccompanied minors in the note, we continued the dialogue with the associations, made available properties owned for public synergy – private, activated the health service that first dabbed and then vaccinated all the minors in the hotel facilities. Since last week we have begun to move from temporary hotels to the structures that have become available such as the hostel in via Costanzi, the little house of the Emiliani and from January also the new adults will be gradually transferred to cohousing accommodation in the Principe area.. All the children have clothing, food and social and health assistance, with daily visits by social workers. The cynical exploitation on the skin of the weakest made by a certain part of are as useful as they are harmful: certain politicians would do better to join the chorus of our demands towards the government so as not to leave on the shoulders and on the coffers, now insufficient given the escalation of numbers, a never-before-seen emergency of municipalities ”.

Terrile, Pd: “Minors in fact left to themselves”

“For several weeks these minors left in hotels have in fact been abandoned to themselves, without social and health assistance, without shoes and clothing, forced to leave the hotels during the day – Terrile reported today – They do not enjoy the meal service, for which use the canteens for the needy in Piazza Santa Sabina or at the city’s railway stations. third sector, which, according to him, would not be available to intervene. And in the meantime the minors remain abandoned in the hotel. The attitude of the Municipality not only violates the rules and international conventions for the protection of minors, but betrays the history of hospitality and solidarity of our city “, affirms the Pd Group in the Municipality”.