Protest by residents close to Pournara irregular migrants’ internet hosting centre

Residents of Nicosia suburb Kokkinotrimithia on Saturday staged a peaceable protest towards the problematic manner the Pournara Irregular Migrants’ Internet hosting Middle operates of their space.

They stopped visitors for 10 minutes on the freeway close to the Kokkinotrimithia roundabout simply earlier than midday.

Every week in the past, a letter was despatched to the Inside Minister by the neighborhood heads of Kokkinotrimithia, Deneia and Mammari space explaining the explanations they deliberate to protest. Notably:

  • Issues relating to the residents’ well being
  • Issues relating to the residents’ security
  • Enhance of criminality
  • Financial decline
  • Freezing of improvement

Furthermore, the residents are asking the federal government to:

  • Prohibit the motion of migrants in the neighborhood
  • Restrict their quantity to 600
  • Depart them within the Middle for 20 days after which switch them elsewhere as offered by regulation
  • Enhance the dwelling situations of the 600 who will stay within the middle.