Italy: Salvini closes Europe's one-time largest migrant centre Far-right Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini closes what was one Europe's biggest migrant reception centre, in Mineo, Sicily. At its peak in 2014, Mineo housed more than 4,100 people. Its population then steadily dropped and when anti-migrant Salvini and the populist Five Star Movement came to power in June last year, it housed 2,500.