Illegal immigrants living in Italy including Nigerians may have their fingers crossed as former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi has threatened to deport them.  Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has pledged to deport 600,000 illegal migrants, including Nigerians, if he is re-elected.

 
Warning of a ‘social time bomb ready to explode’, the 81-year-old said in a TV interview his centre-right coalition would remove those who ‘do not have the right to stay’.
 
In 2014 in Italy there are 71,158 regular immigrants from Nigeria. In 2006 there were 37,733. The three cities with most number of Nigerians are: Turin, Rome and Padua. According to one diplomat, 30,000 Nigerian women are prostitutes in Italy.
 
Out of 157,000 migrants and refugees who have arrived so far in 2016, 19 per cent were Nigerians according to the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR.
 
During the first half of 2017, more than 12,000 Nigerians reached Italy through Libya. By the end of 2016, there had been 27,000, a 48 per cent increase from the year before. Nigerians have been the most common nationality of central Mediterranean sea arrivals now since the summer of 2011, a time known as the so-called North African Emergency
 
Berlusconi said: ‘Immigration has become an urgent question, because after years with a leftwing government, there are 600,000 migrants who don’t have the right to stay.’
 
His threat comes after a far-right extremist, Luca Triani shot six Africans on Saturday in Macerata, a small town in northern Italy. Two of the victims, a man and a women are Nigerians.

‘We consider it to be an absolute priority to regain control over the situation. When we’re in government we will invest many resources in security. We will boost police presence and reintroduce the ‘Safe Streets’ initiative. Our soldiers will patrol the streets alongside police officers,’ he said.
 
Berlusconi used the interview to attack the EU for failing to share the burden of Italy’s migrant arrivals, adding: ‘Today, Italy counts for nothing in Brussels and the world. We will make it count again.’
 
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni meanwhile made a pitch for unity after Saturday’s incident, saying: ‘Hate and violence will not divide us.’
 
Berlusconi’s Forza Italia has forged an alliance with two far-right parties – the Northern League and the smaller Brothers of Italy – in the run to the elections on March 4.
 
The three-time former prime minister is banned from running for office after being convicted of tax fraud.
 
However he could still end up having substantial influence should the coalition gain enough of a majority to govern.
 
Italy is a popular landing point on Europe’s southern coastline for migrants making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, often aboard unseaworthy boats.
 
But 2017 was a turning point for Italy. The country went from large-scale arrivals in the first six months to a sharp drop-off, thanks to controversial agreement between the EU and Libya.
 
Some 119,000 people landed in Italy last year, down 35 percent on 2016.

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Posted: at 5-02-2018 08:07 PM (6 years ago) | Addicted Hero

yeye man, he no get shame @ 81 he still dey chop small small girls

Posted: at 5-02-2018 08:16 PM (6 years ago) | Grande Master

Hmmmm interesting  you do noting go pack well abeg n9 be today...wetin Nigerians do una self.

Posted: at 5-02-2018 08:24 PM (6 years ago) | Hero

THEM THEY FEAR NI...MAKE UNA RETURN TO NAIJA O...RUNAWAY...

Posted: at 5-02-2018 08:36 PM (6 years ago) | Hero

Naija people wit question on their minds everyday

Posted: at 5-02-2018 10:07 PM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac

If u love your country you definitely want to rid it off criminals and crime .Wherever an immigrants is becoming s threat the answer is deport em

Posted: at 5-02-2018 10:19 PM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac

If u love your country you definitely want to rid it off criminals and crime .Wherever an immigrants is becoming s threat the answer is deport em

You are right , because most of the new arrival in italy is a big problem to the country, most of  their behavior will shame you as a black or nigerian. They came in and think they are in Africa where rule and regulation don’t function. Trying to turn another man country into a shithole.

Posted: at 5-02-2018 10:38 PM (6 years ago) | Upcoming

even he has been saying this all along, from early 2000,till now. He might be serious this time because a party called 5stelle.really dealt with him a few years ago. All these ye ye boys that are trooping to Europe right now have really messed up the place, that's why I left Europe and relocated to Nigeria

Posted: at 5-02-2018 11:11 PM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac

even he has been saying this all along, from early 2000,till now. He might be serious this time because a party called 5stelle.really dealt with him a few years ago. All these ye ye boys that are trooping to Europe right now have really messed up the place, that's why I left Europe and relocated to Nigeria

For real those guys in italy are really disgrace, i don’t know how to class them most of them are just nuisance, act like animal in the street. The citizens now class every black as the same, no respect for black race over there. If they like let them deport is their country, they build it comfortable for their self and for their children children to come than to allow foreigners to come and destroy their country the way they destroy their own country of origin.

Posted: at 5-02-2018 11:24 PM (6 years ago) | Upcoming

[he can't win any election into anyoffice]

he can't win any election into anyoffice

Posted: at 6-02-2018 01:10 AM (6 years ago) | Hero

na wa oo

Posted: at 6-02-2018 08:10 AM (6 years ago) | Hero

Empty threat. U no go fit. Italy no be ur family business. Nonesense!!!!

Posted: at 6-02-2018 08:51 AM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac

I have always ignored his party or coalition during election but not this time.I will be voting for him or Savini at least to get rid immigrants disgracing the black race in Italy.

Posted: at 6-02-2018 10:15 AM (6 years ago) | Upcoming

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