These are the cries for help from migrants locked up in the CPR of
Contrada Milo in Trapani. The testimonies continue "The bed, the table,
the seats are made of cement. Medicines are brought in, some are
tranquilizers. Come and see the bathrooms, every room, the food they
give us". The inhuman and liberticidal conditions of the center, as in
all other Italian CPRs, have led migrants to commit suicide attempts and
self-harm, driven by the desperation of living under torture every day
and then being repatriated. They have no legal support and no contact
with the outside world, not even to talk to their families, because
their cell phones are confiscated.
All this to prevent anyone outside the facility from learning about the
torture inflicted on prisoners. The last video dates back to Monday,
March 24, a migrant secretly used a smartphone with a broken camera to
record a person trying to hang himself, but was discovered by the
officers who began to beat him, injuring nine people.
That day, many of the 150 migrants began to go on hunger, thirst and
medicine strike, to claim their rights and to be able to obtain a cell
phone.
In Italy these centers were established in 1998, called Temporary Stay
and Assistance Centers (CPTA), introduced with the Turco-Napolitano law
(1998), the migrant, in the absence of a residence permit, was held in
the CPTA for a maximum period of 20 days, extendable by a further 10 days.
Migrants are defined as guests, in law, in reality it is the complete
opposite: the first CPTA was established in Trapani, inaugurated in July
1998, in the premises of the Casa di Riposo per Anziani "Rosa Serraino
Vulpitta", there were immediately riots, acts of self-harm and escape
attempts.
On the night between 28 and 29 December 1999, six Tunisian boys used
sheets to create a rope and escape from the centre, but were discovered
and taken to cell number 3, here one of the detainees had complained to
the police about the lack of beds, as there were only eight available
and there were twelve of them. One of the policemen replied: "I don't
care. Sleep on the floor. It's none of my business". Hedi, hearing these
sentences, decided to set fire to some mattresses, the fire quickly
spread and the door of the cell was not opened immediately, because the
policemen did not find the keys.
This caused the death of six boys: Rabah, Nashreddine, Jamel, Ramsi,
Lofti and Nasim.
The transition from CPTA to the CPR of today occurred through a series
of laws:
- The Bossi-Fini law (2002) which increased the maximum length of
detention up to sixty days.
- The security package (2008) of the Berlusconi government, attributed
to the Mayors the obligation to report to the authorities irregular
foreigners for expulsion. The CPTA were renamed as identification and
expulsion centers (CIE).
- The Minniti-Orlando Law (2017) transformed the CIE into CPR, smaller
and widespread in sites and areas outside urban centers, and the length
of detention was also increased up to ninety days.
-The Security Decree (2018) wanted by Matteo Salvini, increased the
length of stay in the centers up to one hundred and eighty days and a
list of "safe countries of origin" was drawn up. As if the government
was capable of defining what is safe or not for a migrant.
-The Legislative Decree (2023) of the Meloni government, increased the
length of detention up to eighteen months.
Years pass, governments change, the management bodies of the CPRs
change, the only constant is the profit on the skin of migrants:
initially with the Italian Red Cross, then with the Berlusconi IV
Government (2008) the Cooperatives were inserted: Connecting People
Onlus, Consorzio Hera, Officine Sociali...
The profit of the management body depends on the number of migrants in
the CPR, for this reason there have been cases in which the migrant was
not in physical and mental condition to be able to stay in the detention
center, but was still suitable for detention.
No one should be eligible for torture and violence.
Immigration is considered from two different and opposite perspectives:
on the one hand, migrants are exploited as farm laborers, underpaid late
and subjected to long hours of work. Often the owners, for convenience,
report their condition of "irregularity" to not pay them and have them
locked up in CPRs. On the other hand, politicians use the migratory
phenomenon for propaganda purposes.
"Defending the Italian borders can never be a crime" cit. Giorgia
Meloni, "Rejections are the only way to save lives and avoid an invasion
of our territories that will bring nothing good" cit.Matteo Salvini, "We
cannot surrender to the idea of ethnic substitution" cit. Francesco
Lollobrigida.
These statements are intended to falsify reality and create a narrative
to their advantage: the migrant is a criminal, the enemy from which we
must defend ourselves because he threatens the security of the nation,
he is against our identity and our culture. The aim of the right is to
destabilize the people in order to create laws that deprive the freedom
of the "dangerous" migrant. Like the security decree of the Meloni
government, signed by Mattarella on April 11 "In the CPR anyone who
participates in a revolt is punished with imprisonment from one to four
years. Passive resistance behavior is also punishable".
The migrant becomes the scapegoat and the State, the true responsible
party, maintains power without fear of being questioned.
The politicians of the so-called "opposition" criticize the government's
actions, parade in the CPRs and ask parliamentary questions to create a
consensus from that part of the population that is most sensitive to the
lives of migrants, in reality nothing changes.
A sabotage could be carried out by medical and health personnel in not
giving any migrant the suitability for access to the CPRs, but we know
that not everyone decides to take this risk.
Surely we will continue to go under the walls of the centers, as
happened at the CPR in Trapani on April 10, where a group of people in
solidarity was able to communicate with the migrants: "FREEDOM HURRIYA
FREEDOM".
The truth is that the CPRs, the places of detention, the hotspots will
continue to exist as long as the State exists. It is all part of a
single system.
Solidarity with those who fight for freedom, we remember Ousmane Sylla,
Moussa Balde who died by "suicide" and all the victims of this
capitalist system.
The term "suicide" is used improperly, let's give the correct meaning:
State murder.
(A)
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Contrada Milo in Trapani. The testimonies continue "The bed, the table,
the seats are made of cement. Medicines are brought in, some are
tranquilizers. Come and see the bathrooms, every room, the food they
give us". The inhuman and liberticidal conditions of the center, as in
all other Italian CPRs, have led migrants to commit suicide attempts and
self-harm, driven by the desperation of living under torture every day
and then being repatriated. They have no legal support and no contact
with the outside world, not even to talk to their families, because
their cell phones are confiscated.
All this to prevent anyone outside the facility from learning about the
torture inflicted on prisoners. The last video dates back to Monday,
March 24, a migrant secretly used a smartphone with a broken camera to
record a person trying to hang himself, but was discovered by the
officers who began to beat him, injuring nine people.
That day, many of the 150 migrants began to go on hunger, thirst and
medicine strike, to claim their rights and to be able to obtain a cell
phone.
In Italy these centers were established in 1998, called Temporary Stay
and Assistance Centers (CPTA), introduced with the Turco-Napolitano law
(1998), the migrant, in the absence of a residence permit, was held in
the CPTA for a maximum period of 20 days, extendable by a further 10 days.
Migrants are defined as guests, in law, in reality it is the complete
opposite: the first CPTA was established in Trapani, inaugurated in July
1998, in the premises of the Casa di Riposo per Anziani "Rosa Serraino
Vulpitta", there were immediately riots, acts of self-harm and escape
attempts.
On the night between 28 and 29 December 1999, six Tunisian boys used
sheets to create a rope and escape from the centre, but were discovered
and taken to cell number 3, here one of the detainees had complained to
the police about the lack of beds, as there were only eight available
and there were twelve of them. One of the policemen replied: "I don't
care. Sleep on the floor. It's none of my business". Hedi, hearing these
sentences, decided to set fire to some mattresses, the fire quickly
spread and the door of the cell was not opened immediately, because the
policemen did not find the keys.
This caused the death of six boys: Rabah, Nashreddine, Jamel, Ramsi,
Lofti and Nasim.
The transition from CPTA to the CPR of today occurred through a series
of laws:
- The Bossi-Fini law (2002) which increased the maximum length of
detention up to sixty days.
- The security package (2008) of the Berlusconi government, attributed
to the Mayors the obligation to report to the authorities irregular
foreigners for expulsion. The CPTA were renamed as identification and
expulsion centers (CIE).
- The Minniti-Orlando Law (2017) transformed the CIE into CPR, smaller
and widespread in sites and areas outside urban centers, and the length
of detention was also increased up to ninety days.
-The Security Decree (2018) wanted by Matteo Salvini, increased the
length of stay in the centers up to one hundred and eighty days and a
list of "safe countries of origin" was drawn up. As if the government
was capable of defining what is safe or not for a migrant.
-The Legislative Decree (2023) of the Meloni government, increased the
length of detention up to eighteen months.
Years pass, governments change, the management bodies of the CPRs
change, the only constant is the profit on the skin of migrants:
initially with the Italian Red Cross, then with the Berlusconi IV
Government (2008) the Cooperatives were inserted: Connecting People
Onlus, Consorzio Hera, Officine Sociali...
The profit of the management body depends on the number of migrants in
the CPR, for this reason there have been cases in which the migrant was
not in physical and mental condition to be able to stay in the detention
center, but was still suitable for detention.
No one should be eligible for torture and violence.
Immigration is considered from two different and opposite perspectives:
on the one hand, migrants are exploited as farm laborers, underpaid late
and subjected to long hours of work. Often the owners, for convenience,
report their condition of "irregularity" to not pay them and have them
locked up in CPRs. On the other hand, politicians use the migratory
phenomenon for propaganda purposes.
"Defending the Italian borders can never be a crime" cit. Giorgia
Meloni, "Rejections are the only way to save lives and avoid an invasion
of our territories that will bring nothing good" cit.Matteo Salvini, "We
cannot surrender to the idea of ethnic substitution" cit. Francesco
Lollobrigida.
These statements are intended to falsify reality and create a narrative
to their advantage: the migrant is a criminal, the enemy from which we
must defend ourselves because he threatens the security of the nation,
he is against our identity and our culture. The aim of the right is to
destabilize the people in order to create laws that deprive the freedom
of the "dangerous" migrant. Like the security decree of the Meloni
government, signed by Mattarella on April 11 "In the CPR anyone who
participates in a revolt is punished with imprisonment from one to four
years. Passive resistance behavior is also punishable".
The migrant becomes the scapegoat and the State, the true responsible
party, maintains power without fear of being questioned.
The politicians of the so-called "opposition" criticize the government's
actions, parade in the CPRs and ask parliamentary questions to create a
consensus from that part of the population that is most sensitive to the
lives of migrants, in reality nothing changes.
A sabotage could be carried out by medical and health personnel in not
giving any migrant the suitability for access to the CPRs, but we know
that not everyone decides to take this risk.
Surely we will continue to go under the walls of the centers, as
happened at the CPR in Trapani on April 10, where a group of people in
solidarity was able to communicate with the migrants: "FREEDOM HURRIYA
FREEDOM".
The truth is that the CPRs, the places of detention, the hotspots will
continue to exist as long as the State exists. It is all part of a
single system.
Solidarity with those who fight for freedom, we remember Ousmane Sylla,
Moussa Balde who died by "suicide" and all the victims of this
capitalist system.
The term "suicide" is used improperly, let's give the correct meaning:
State murder.
(A)
https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
_________________________________________
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