'Plan for new CPRs before summer' says Piantedosi

The government is planning to build
new CPR migrant processing centres and will come up with a plan
on where to build them before the summer, Interior Minister
Matteo Piantedosi said Friday.

   
"It is the government's intention to build new CPRs," he said on
the sidelines of a conference at the Chamber of Deputies,
responding to a question on the controversy in Milan over the
wounding of a policeman by a Moroccan man who had already been
the recipient of expulsion decrees that had not been implemented
also due to a lack of places in the CPRs.

   
"Shortly, before the summer, we will come out with the first
identifications of an overall plan on where to build them.

   
"Before the summer we will present the first hypotheses."
A 35-year-old policeman is in a critical condition in Milan's
Niguarda hospital after being stabbed by a man in the area of
the city's Lambrate station on Wednesday night.

   
The policeman intervened after the attacker, a 37-year-old
Moroccan migrant who had not found room at a CPR, started
throwing stones at trains and one hit a 55-year-old woman in the
head.

   
The cop was stabbed three times in the back and underwent
emergency surgery for organ damage. The 37-year-old was tasered
and arrested.

   

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