Migrant influx worries Sicilian city locals

Lawyer in Catania starts residents’ committee to push authorities to remove homeless migrants from the streets.

Thousands of migrants travelling from North Africa and the Middle East reach southern Italy every year.

More than 50,000 have arrived in Sicily alone since January.

For some Italians the influx has become too much.

Al Jazeera’s Claudio Lavanga reports from the Sicilian city of Catania.

Source: Al Jazeera

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