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An association that supports over a hundred migrants, who stay overnight at the Igreja dos Anjos, today accused the Lisbon City Council of trying to "instrumentalise" the lives of these people and demanded dignified housing solutions.
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The criticism was made in a statement sent to the Lusa agency by the Cozinha dos Anjos collective and comes in the wake of statements made on Tuesday by the Mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas (PSD), who said he was "ashamed to be in a country that no longer has an immigration policy".
In statements to journalists, the social democratic mayor, who was commenting on the xenophobic attacks that occurred in Porto, associated the problems that are occurring with immigrants in several cities, namely in Lisbon, with the work carried out by the Agency for the Integration of Migrants and Asylum (AIMA).
In his speech, Carlos Moedas also admitted that he had no answer for the situation that is occurring in the parish of Arroios, "where the number of people who are spending the night in tents in the Jardim dos Anjos is growing", stating that "most of them are undocumented immigrants".
"As if the Lisbon City Council were actually solving the problem of the hundreds of people, with regular documentation, who are homeless [...], as if human rights depended on a residence permit", reads the note from Cozinha dos Anjos.
The collective states that since February, more than a hundred migrants have been spending the night around the Igreja dos Anjos, most of them from the African countries of Senegal and Gambia, surviving on the solidarity and support of several activist associations.
In this sense, they accuse the Lisbon City Council of doing nothing, despite having announced a month ago its intention to "initiate an action that aimed to guide and respond to all the vulnerable people who are there", in collaboration with several social solidarity institutions.
"A month later, we find migrants starving, dehydrated and in need of medical assistance, because none of these institutions is addressing the most basic needs that any human being should have guaranteed, such as water, food, health care and hygiene conditions", they point out.
In view of this situation, Cozinha dos Anjos asks the Lisbon City Council to stop "using the lives of migrants" and to demand housing solutions from the Government.
"We demand collaboration between the local authority, the Government and all the responsible institutions", they state.
In a note also sent today, the Lisbon City Council indicated that Mayor Carlos Moedas will meet on Friday with the mayors of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area to discuss a common strategy for the problems of homelessness.
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