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About 200 Migrants Stage Sit-in in Rome Over Allegedly Unpaid Pocket Money

© REUTERS / Stefano RellandiniMigrants wait to disembark from the Vos Hestia ship as they arrive at the Crotone harbour, after being rescued by a "Save the Children" crew in the Mediterranean sea off the Libya coast, in Crotone, Italy June 21, 2017.
Migrants wait to disembark from the Vos Hestia ship as they arrive at the Crotone harbour, after being rescued by a Save the Children crew in the Mediterranean sea off the Libya coast, in Crotone, Italy June 21, 2017. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - About 200 migrants barricaded themselves inside a migrants reception facility in the Italian capital of Rome on Thursday as a form of protest against allegedly unpaid pocket money, the ANSA news agency reported.

According to the ANSA news agency, the police have arrived at the scene as tensions increased.

READ MORE: Migration in Italy is 'Certainly Big Issue and it Favors the Right' - Professor

A recent report by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, or the Doctors Without Borders) has found that over 150,000 migrants are residing in Emergency Reception Centers across Italy. Such centers are funded by the state, however, the migrants' reception facilities are often trying to save the money from the items of expenditure and pocket the profits.

Since 2015, the European Union has been facing an acute migration crisis, with hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers arriving in the bloc in a bid to flee wars and a deteriorating humanitarian situation in their homes in the Middle East and North Africa.

READ MORE: Anti-Immigration Sentiments Spread Across Italy Ahead of Elections

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