this morning in Lampedusa, the southern island of Europe, a revolt started in the "Centre for identification and expulsion", following the hunger strike of 300 detainees from Tunisia. The detention center hosts more than 800 migrants, mostly from Tunisia. The fire destroyed most of the building and the police had to fight the revolt with extra smoke (teargas), it is yet unknown the number of people harmed.
Guilty is the Government...
The mayor of the city Bernardino De Rubeis has released a declaration against the Italian government, quoting his own words: "Guilty is the Government which transformed this center in a Lager, the migrants are desperate."
The revolt seem to have exploded as 107 Tunisian migrants were to be deported back to their country, proceeding to a first transfer in Roma.
source:
article from the newspaper Repubblica
Another recent news, to let you understand how we South Italians are seen and feel closer to africa, is
this news reporting a deliberate aggression by police in Sicily to a fisherman and legitimate italian citizen: since his skin is as dark as that of a north
african, he has been hit *in the back* by a policeman in the middle of the street, exchanging him for "a migrant escaped from the detention center", without any other reason. The episode is raising various polemics that are well fitting the raising climate of fascism and xenophobia affecting the Italian peninsula especially since the last
abusive change of government directed by Berlusconi.
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