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A Muslim mayor in the Tuscan seaside community of Monte Argentario has provoked a political outcry for refusing to accept any refugees.
Centre-right mayor Arturo Cerulli has openly rejected growing political pressure for councils to do more to welcome the thousands of asylum seekers landing in Italy and help to ease the worsening refugee crisis.
"We don't want refugees here, we don't have the facilities for them," Cerulli told The Local on Friday. "We don't know where to put them, we don't know what to do with them."