The center was the scene of scandals and riots. The military base returns to state property.
The last refugees leave Conetta. Then everything ends here. In short, Conetta closes. Closes, and it is an era that is ending, after riots, protests, cracks, angry migrants, stacked beds, bonfire, scared prefects, furious mayors, dirt and grime everywhere.
It was the 24 July three years ago. When Conetta, fraction of Cona, in the Venetian, just 197 inhabitants, began to host migrants. We left with 50 asylum seekers. Then he went up to 144 but within a year the numbers quintupled. Huddled inside circus tents, where the cooperative that hosted them made tons of money, in April 2016 they were almost 700, in September 900 and in March 2017, 1500. But there were times when Conetta experienced a cluster of more 1600 migrants. E 1600, in a country of 197 souls that still mark the day with the rising of the sun and the crowing of the rooster, there are definitely too many.
This was until last year, when the asylum seekers decided to take, pack up your weapons and baggage, flip flops on your feet in winter, iPhone in hand and together they marched towards Venice. It was the 13 November 2017. And we all remember the march of migrants. When for twenty days all of Veneto and all of Italy followed this epochal march that a little’ at a time he emptied the base. The night of 15 November 2017, in 248 they ran away. There was also one death, Salif Traore, whose body flew down a cliff, hit by a car, while on his bike he caught up with his companions. As there was also that Ivorian girl, Sandrine Bakayoko, than inside the "shower" of the camp, he felt ill and died. It was the 2 January 2017. One of the most squalid pages of Italian hospitality. Why today, 20 December, the last ones 70 migrants will be taken away and then Conetta closes. Yesterday they were transferred 45. Where it is not known exactly. Not even the mayor Alberto Panfilio knows it, who has been exhausted by managing this problem for three years. And he has always called for the base to be closed. «I know they went towards Vicenza, Verona, Treviso tells Il Giornale they have finally understood the importance of widespread hospitality". «They were transferred out of the region, confides a source from the prefecture, but you should ask the ministry that ordered the closure». Prefect Zappalorto had spoken of a closure by Christmas. But official sources say that Conetta is closing today. The cooperative therefore, the former Ecoofficina, now Edeco, already under investigation, she finds herself forced to dismantle everything. And the base returns to state property. Coming soon though, they say from the prefecture, other calls for reception, but not in Conetta, also because what was supposed to be a new assignment, has been suspended. In short, Meanwhile, festive music for Christmas. "Let's ring the bells", they say from Conetta. For the rest, we'll think about it next year.
source: http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/chiude-simbolo-mala-accoglienza-conetta-ultimi-70-immigrati-1619220.html?mobile_detect=false