As Italy scrambles to house thousands of migrants arriving on its shores, an aristocrat is taking legal action after discovering that 33 Afghan and Pakistani men are to be put up at his 17th-century family mansion.
Count Francesco Lovaria said he was concerned for the safety of his 24-year-old daughter and worried about scaring off tourists who stay at apartments he lets at Villa Lovaria, his palatial property near Udine, in northern Italy.
“I was very unhappy and almost offended to hear out of the blue about these arrivals,” said Count Lovaria, whose family built the house in 1650.
The deal to host the migrants was made with the Italian Red Cross — without Count Lovaria’s knowledge — by Alessandro Viscovich, who inherited two apartments