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The Central Train Station in Milan has been home to dozens of migrants who have taken up residence there. A permanent camp has been set up in the station for the past couple of months. But tensions boiled over on Wednesday afternoon when a mass fight broke out among the migrants. Witnesses reported seeing no police whatsoever to quell the brawl.

GETTY•IL GIORNALE Witnesses reported seeing no police whatsoever to quell the brawl

Luca Lepore, municipal councillor for the City Hall, posted online: “Scenes from the Wild West. No presence of police, all left to chance. "The square was deserted, this is a model example, a demonstration that Milan is left to itself. “The central station is a hub. Is it possible that there is not even one police officer here by chance?"

The situation threatens to explode Paolo Grimoldi

Shocking footage, shot by Mr Lepore who witnessed a clash between some 30 migrants, emerged just after the scrap. He captured the aftermath of the town square, which is filled with groups of people and tensions boil as the crowd jostles and scuffles. Mr Lepore said: "Images that speak for themselves.” The clip ends with several migrants chasing a man on a bike as he tries to flee the scene, cycling into oncoming traffic.

IL GIORNALE The secretary of Lega in Lombardy, Paolo Grimoldi, called the area “a new Calais jungle”

The secretary of Lega in Lombardy, Paolo Grimoldi, called the area “a new Calais jungle” and said "the situation threatens to explode”. He asked the Interior Minister Angelino Alfano to go to Milan and to send more soldiers to the station, in Sammartini Avenue. The fight broke out around 3pm, and Mr Lepore criticised the migrants’ actions, claiming a far serious accident could have occurred. Viviana Beccalossi, regional councillor in Lombardy, said: “This is the Italy of Renzi.

“This is an unacceptable situation that highlights how security in our cities is increasingly a chimera. “Respectable citizens, those who pay taxes, are likely, as the case today, to be hit by the criminal wave of people who should be sent back to their countries of origin. “Milan, in less than a year, has changed from 'City of Expo' to uncontrolled kasbah where everything is permitted."

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