All eyes are on the detention centers for repatriation that the government wants to create in the regions where they do not yet exist: in Sardinia the one in Macomer is already active, destined to host more and more migrants.
Meanwhile in Villanovaforru , away from the spotlight and in silence - if it weren't for the mayor Maurizio Onnis - operations are going ahead for the construction of a tent city which will have to host foreigners who will be transferred from the Lampedusa hotspot and from other reception centers that they get saturated every other day as well.
Those implemented by the government are actions that develop along various lines to try to cope with the powerful wave of migration that is hitting - again - the Italian coasts.
Lampedusa takes the lead in the first instance, comes under pressure, and is "freed" with transfers. The other regions must do their part and make spaces available. The Meloni government has focused everything on centers where migrants considered irregular can be held for up to 18 months and then expelled.
But there is also a parallel reality. Like the one that is taking shape in the town of 600 souls in Medio Campidano: Villanovaforru has coexisted peacefully with a reception center for years. In recent weeks the Prefecture informed the mayor that the numbers would increase shortly.
And the announcement is taking shape: «Over the weekend a bulldozer leveled the square of the extraordinary reception center of Villanovaforru», says Onnis, «in the Prefecture they confirmed that they sent the bulldozer, that new migrants will arrive and that they will put them in tents." Today, adds the mayor, «I heard Meloni say with my own ears: «I will not allow Italy to become the refugee camp of Europe». Why then does Villanovaforru become Italy's refugee camp?", is the question of a mayor who has always opposed every racist demonstration and worked for reception. But now he sees the State as "unfriendly", in the least. And it is not the first time.