"For the third consecutive year, dozens of people excluded from the reception system are forced to live in undignified conditions" in the city, Doctors without Borders said in Gorizia. The organization is calling for "an immediate intervention by the authorities that will ensure a dignified and structural response." Meanwhile, to provide shelter to the migrants, MSF has made a heated tent available to the charitable organization Caritas within the city limits. Starting on December 13 it "began ensuring shelter to people forced, in recent weeks, to sleep camped-out and exposed to near-zero temperatures".

'Humanitarian emergency' in Gorizia

Volunteers providing assistance to more than 100 people forced to sleep outside in the Bombi Galleria in the city center alerted MSF to the situation. In November, an MSF team conducted a site inspection at the camp, confirming the seriousness of the situation. "The people who were living in the Galleria were in medical conditions that were absolutely unsustainable, due to the extreme cold that could cause true emergencies in a span of a few days, as well as become life-threatening," Stefano Spinelli, an MSF doctor who participated in the site inspection, told ANSA. The Galleria was evacuated at the end of November and "the transfer of people decompressed the humanitarian emergency only for a limited time. There's a continuous influx arriving in Gorizia. Transferring people is just a temporary panacea for an emergency that will reform if alternative solutions aren't found," he said.