Invisibility continues despite all the promises

In Trieste, even today, many people seeking protection are left without a roof over their heads. After the eviction of the “Silos” area and the makeshift warehouses – which had already turned a fragile shelter into life on the streets – the situation has not improved. According to solidarity organisations, more than 150–200 asylum seekers were still living in makeshift camps in the Porto Vecchio area up until November.

In recent months, the authorities have launched a “take charge” operation: on 3 December, around 155 asylum seekers were transferred to reception centres in different regions of Italy, and two derelict warehouses in Porto Vecchio were closed.

However, associations report that this so-called “reception” remains fragmented and insufficient.

These figures are part of a broader picture: in 2024, around 13,460 arrivals were recorded along the Balkan route, but only a fraction (less than 10%) say they want to apply for asylum in the city, often discouraged by waiting times and the lack of adequate facilities.

In practice, this means: continuous arrivals, an inadequate reception system, and thousands of people who remain “invisible” to the institutions, forced to live on the street or in precarious spaces. This is the real face of institutional racism: not only closed borders, but abandonment in bureaucracy and the denial of basic rights.

In this context, concrete solidarity becomes even more valuable.

The tenth trip of the Fornelli Resistenti, network of which it is also a member Oltremani Pesaro Urbino ODV, now arrives not as a symbolic gesture, but as an urgent response: bringing warmth, food and humanity where institutions have failed. It does not solve the crisis, but it clearly shows which side we choose to stand on.

All of this happens with the support of groups such as Linea d’Ombra, religious communities and all the organisations that show, every day, that another model is possible – one in which reception is not an optional extra but a duty.

Human rights are not a favour.
They are not a concession for anyone.