Italian mayor defends request for refugees to use separate buses
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12 October 2016
14:35 CEST+02:00
Italian mayor defends request for refugees to use separate buses
The mayor of Calizzano has asked refugees to avoid using the same bus as local children. File photo: El Gran Dee/Flickr
A mayor in northern Italy faced backlash after asking refugees to avoid using the same buses as local schoolchildren, with the regional representative of PM Renzi's democratic party likening the segregation to "apartheid".
But he's sticking to his decision.
The mayor of Calizzano, a town near Savona in northern Italy, held a meeting with the local bus company and the owners of the hotel where 40 refugees are currently staying, to request that the migrants use a different bus from schoolchildren.
The mayor, Pierangelo Oliviero noted that since the bus only had space for 48 people, and children had to take either the 6.30 or 6.45 bus in order to reach school on time, the migrants staying at the Hotel Lux should use a different mode of transport.
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