Dozens of migrants arrive in Trieste every day

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 25 - Dozens of migrants and refugees arearriving each day in the northern border city of Trieste ontheir overland journey along the Balkan route from Greece tocentral and northern Europe, experts said on Friday.
   Volunteers and cultural mediators monitoring the situation inthe central Piazza Libertà near the city railway station and inthe local day centre for migrants say that 7,890 people arrivedduring the first seven months of the year, with a peak of 2,277arrivals in July.
   To these numbers must be added other migrants and refugeescrossing into Italy in Gorizia and Tarvisio near Udine.
   Experts say the emergency situation linked to the increase inthe number of migrants and refugees transiting through Triesteis compounded by the limited formal reception capacity in theregion and the failure to transfer people already in receptionto facilities in other parts of Italy.
   This, they explain, has created a bottleneck, with more than 400people who should be in reception facilities living on thestreets.
   This, according to Gianfranco Schiavone of the ConsorzioItaliano di Solidarietà (ICS), includes a growing number ofunaccompanied minors, families, vulnerable people and the sick.
   On Thursday Schiavone denounced the unfolding "humanitariandisaster" in Trieste and said it has been "deliberatelyfabricated with a level of public irresponsibility that I havenever seen in my life".
   Many of the people arriving in Italy via its northeastern borderwith Slovenia are fleeing war and persecution, and they haveoften also suffered serious abuse and maltreatment in transitcountries along the route. (ANSA).