Maybe it's the first time. The first time a demonstration against migrant prisons
takes place downtown. In the last 24 years, when the CPT in Corso Brunelleschiwas opened in June 1999, processions and principals had this prison as theirfulcrum where inmates arrive without having gone through a court. It is theadministrative prison, designed as a deportation antechamber for those who,according to Italian laws, do not have what it takes to live in our country. ----This first time has good reason. From the first days of March what is now calledCPR has been closed, because it was destroyed by the February riots. ---- But thegovernment is determined to reopen it as soon as possible. ---- For about twomonths a company, L'Operosa, has been working beyond the walls and barbed wire torenovate it.It is a company that is very attentive to its image, which describes its offer as"ethical", under the banner of social and environmental responsibility. The usualgreen, pink, blue minestrone to cover the dirty work they are doing with gossipand beautiful colors.Blocking the reopening of the CPR is the urgency that prompted a diverse networkof associations, assemblies, groups and individuals to promote a nationalprocession and assembly for the first weekend of July.The demonstration, about three hundred people, after a very long stop in PiazzaCastello, moved along the royal gardens up to the Po and Piazza Vittorio, endingat Valentino.Before the departure of the procession, a large banner came down from thescaffolding for the renovation of Palazzo Madama with the words "CPR=lager. Let'sblock the state and companies ".In Corso San Maurizio, a sheet with the inscription "The police kills. Revengefor Nahel"; at the entrance to the Gran Madre bridge was posted "CPR, stateconcentration camps close with fire".Between speeches and slogans, the event ended at the Valentino arch.The road to closure of the CPRs is still long and all uphill. The governmentintends to keep going with the active complicity of the opposition, who limitthemselves to denouncing some "excess" to try to save face.It is uphill, because in these 25 years it has become "normal" for someone to bedeprived of their freedom and then deported only because they are poor and,therefore, without the piece of paper that sets them free".A terrible normality, the same that Hanna Arendt spoke of, the same that made itpossible to dehumanize and exterminate millions of people, arousing the applauseof the most.As a minister of this Republic said, whoever embarks with his children on anovercrowded cart is responsible for their death.Who knows? Even those who in recent years have seen their loved ones who died atthe CPR in Turin return in a coffin should have stopped them, prevented them fromleaving, kept them at home in misery and resignation.Macron too would like the kids who are setting fire to barracks, police stations,town halls to be kept at home, stifling anger over the death of a boy like them,killed in cold blood by a policeman.They are kids who don't resign themselves to the normality of state violence.Even in our country there are still people capable of indignation, capable ofjoining those who burn their prisons to free everyone *.The time is now. There is no tomorrow.Below is the text of the flyer we distributed at the procession:"No CPR, No borders, No deportationsWithout states or borders, no one is illegalThe CPR of Turin is closed. For the first time since 1999, when the undocumentedwere locked up in freezing containers in winter and boiling hot in summer, theriots that broke out in February made a structure that doubled and built inmasonry in 2008 completely unusable. The one in Turin was one of the fouradministrative prisons that had never closed their doors, even when the ragingriots brought the network of Centers to almost total paralysis.This winter's struggles were an important moment in a very harsh conflict,costing many inmates prison, punitive displacements, beatings and deportationover the course of 25 years.However, the government is determined to reopen it as soon as possible, perhapsafter redefining the prison and control areas.The CPRs are an important cog in the expulsion machine, necessary to keep intactthe reputation of intransigence towards "illegal immigrants" enjoyed by everygovernment.The lives trapped in the CPR, suspended in the hotspots, poised between revenuestamps and daily police abuses start from afar, in lands where neocolonialism,the exploitation of resources, wars make the desert.For years, governments have been trying to move the borders further and furtheraway, to Libya, Niger, Sudan, making agreements with governments and paramilitarymilitias to do the dirty work, rejecting and imprisoning people on the go.The Mediterranean has become an enormous shroud covering the lives of tens ofthousands of people who died at sea because no one helps them. Those who do, likeNGO ships, are criminalized, fined, blocked.On the eastern and western borders of the Belpaese, migrants die on Alpinecrossings or overwhelmed by a train in a tunnel, while those with the "right"cards don't even see the border. Borders have become mobile borders on whichexclusion towards the poor is measured.Borders are lines made of nothing on a map: they only become real when there arearmed troops guarding them, selecting who can pass and who can't.The legislation on immigration in our country has outlined a rupture of theliberal order, configuring itself as an "administrative law of the enemy". By"enemy's right" we mean a corpus of legislation, whereby some human groups(foreigners, subversives, non-standard, insane, disabled) are prosecuted for whatthey are and not for what they do.In our country we are clandestine by law. Entering "legally" is impossible: inorder to have a residence permit, you need a work contract signed in the countryof origin. How many bosses do you know who hire unseen a worker never seenbefore, in a country thousands of kilometers from Italy?None of those who arrive have what it takes. Anyone who runs into a check takesthe expulsion order, if it is fished out it ends up in the CPR.The history of the CPR - once the CIE and before that the CPT - is the story ofriots, escapes, beatings, hunger strikes, people who cut themselves, others whoseal their mouths. The Italian CPRs have been destroyed and rebuilt over and overagain.Along with prisons, the CPRs are social dumping grounds in which those who havenot adapted are locked up, those swallowed up by the streets, the rebels, therejects to be eliminated at the end of a process that begins in the countries oforigin.The youngest, the healthiest, those who have family networks able to offer theresources to embark on a journey that can last years leave. It is the firstselection. Those who survive the journey, the torture and rape in the Libyanconcentration camps, the beatings on the Balkan route, must face clandestine lifein Europe.All * work illegally, without the possibility of renting a house, having adoctor, imagining a future. Anyone who manages to get a contract after years isalways under blackmail, because if he doesn't give in to the boss and loses hisjob, he also loses the documents that make him "legal".At each stage of this ferocious game of the goose, someone doesn't make it andends up in the gears of the expulsion machine.The lack of access to citizenship rights ends up in the denial of human rights.In reality, "human rights" are only the litmus test that makes visible theexclusion of so many of those who live on this planet. An exclusion not so muchfrom rights, but from the human assembly itself.Doing away with clandestinity, the dead en route, prisons for migrants meansdoing away with states, borders, armies, bosses, exploitation.It means doing away with an intolerable world order."Turin Anarchist FederationAntimilitarist AssemblyCorso Palermo 46Meetings - open to interested parties* - every Tuesday at 9pmhttps://www.anarresinfo.org/corteo-no-cpr-senza-stati-ne-confini-nessuno-e-clandestino/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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