Outside the House of Representatives, residents of Kokkinotrimithia and the communities in the area will meet this afternoon to protest problems arising from the presence of the Migrant Accommodation Centre "Pournara" in their area.
The protest event is scheduled for six o'clock while the Plenum will be meeting inside the building.
Speaking to RIK's Third Programme, Kokkinotrimithia community leader Christakis Meleties said that no MP has gone to the communities to listen to their problems, except for the Interior Minister, while MPs have visited Pournara several times.
Residents, he said, feel that their health is at risk, since when they are found to have infectious diseases, migrants leave the shelter to avoid being deported.
The area, he added,
cannot serve 50 percent of its population, it cannot assimilate such a large number of migrants.
Christakis Meletiès also advocated the solution of the barbed wire along the length of the buffer zone and denounced the existence of Cypriot traffickers.
*With information from RIK radio
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