March 2009

report here an interesting Article found online by accident.

------------------------------------------------ --------------

Old CPT become CIE (Centre for identification and expulsion), where illegal immigrants are locked up both newcomers, both asylum seekers and those with expired residence permit .
increasingly militarized and closed to the outside world, are the product of `emergency policy of the Berlusconi government, thanks to the media that has transformed the worst xenophobia in common sense, and thanks to a` non-existent opposition pushed through measures that have been unconstitutional harshly condemned by the European Parliament

war migrants from the Italian Government shall, every days with greater force, at home and on the external front.
same day in the Sicilian other migrants lost their lives for the barrage of policies adopted in the southern maritime borders with unnecessary FRONTEX missions by the European Union, led by Commissioner Frattini, the Italian government has decided to send of military forces to guard the detention centers for foreigners, not only the old CPT (now known as CIE Centres for identification and expulsion) but also other centers - it would seem - in which immigrants are collected, although applicants asylum after landing. In fact, many

CIE are in "multifunctional centers" that include too expensive and the CPA / CID, for asylum seekers, and therefore the military will also guard the women and children, and in general to people waiting to be recognized their refugee status or protection.
And only this can mean sending the army in cities like Syracuse and Agrigento, where again there are no detention facilities, but where the government apparently intends to introduce new detention facilities for those who are still in transit or waiting first identified after the landing or rescue at sea.

You can already imagine what the consequences of the presence of the military, some of whom came from special forces engaged in war in Afghanistan, in the oversight of detention facilities.
The measure distorts the constitutional role of the army and, as far as we know, it could also lead to an increased closure of detention centers than outside, in contrast with the EU directives on reception and asylum procedures, just implemented in Italy, but still devoid of the IR.

You can also record some very serious consequences on the outside of the structures placed under the supervision of armed military, freedom of expression of anti-racist networks and initiatives of solidarity with immigrants in detention.
The extent of sending soldiers to guard the fences of barbed CIE (the old CPT) is accompanied by the decision to multiply these structures in all Italian regions, a measure that will still take a greater use of police force.
To do this, to act quickly, emergency procedures will be adopted as the civil protection order permitted by the declaration of an immigration emergency.
One way to impose detention centers even in regions such as Umbria and Tuscany, which had always opposed the opening of these structures. A huge expenditure managed by the Ministry of the Interior through the prefectures, free from any control spending accounts, an unprecedented waste of resources that contribute only to criminalize immigrants to a more violent and uneven social relations. Without
ensure even greater "efficiency" measures forced removal.
A comprehensive policy, that of the Berlusconi government, which is scanned every day by emergency measures, unconstitutional, passed in the wake of opinion polls and
of xenophobic populism that has become common sense in Italy.

With the prospect now of the introduction of some of the crime of illegal immigration and the extension to 18 months of administrative detention. Maybe
by silencing the part that remains out of control in the information world and the judiciary.
Here again, in autumn, the government has prepared measures of civil liberty that subvert the constitutional order on which democracy is based in Italy over the last six years.
seem to serve no purpose even
the appeals and condemnations by the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, which took over as excessive use of violence by the police in clearing operations within the Roma camps, as the risk that Italy will continue to deportations to countries where they practice against migrants from other countries are routinely practiced torture and other inhuman and degrading treatment.

indignant reactions of Maroni speak for themselves, by reading the pages of counter-comments that the Italian government has tried very hard to oppose sentence imposed by the ratio Hammarberg, a point of no return path of isolation of Italy at the European level, for non-compliance by our country's democratic rule of law and fundamental human rights enshrined in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.

While President of the Republic and the Constitutional Court are still silent, but soon will be asked to determine without doubt, were the first European institutions to feel the very serious risks run by our democracy, from the "war" declared on migrants , in the name of security and social selfishness, The Report Hammarberg Council of Europe accuses also returns to Italy has made to Tunisia and Egypt, countries that do not actually recognize the right of asylum and international protection, even if
formally adhere to the Geneva Convention.
And that while Italy plans to conclude with yet another Gaddafi readmission agreement to hell for rejecting the Libyan migrants from third countries would thus be sentenced again for years to suffer the abuses that are now documented in a number of international relations (to be consulted on www.fortresseurope.blogspot.com), but shows that our country to ignore or do not want to take into account.
Minister Maroni said he was shocked condemnation of Italy by the Council of Europe, but perhaps, before they react with such bitterness, would do better to inquire with his staff and advisors, on how summary of return in recent months in Italy, and his ministry, have practiced planning direct flights from Lampedusa to the 'Egypt, arbitrarily or returnee migrants in Tunisia for which the European Court of Human Rights had ordered the immediate suspension of the enforcement of forced removal.
We would like to recall some facts that-even attracted by the strong condemnation of the Council of Europe show that the practice of police still violate the standards imposed by the international conventions signed by Italy as well. And
only against the Roma population, most recently by the beating of a girl and her father in Milan, but also against legal immigrants who claim their rights occupying a cathedral.

The brutal violence of the police who charged in Naples asylum seekers who claimed a dignified arrangement has prompted even the mayor of that city to apologize to migrants, while some municipal councilors were direct witnesses of the charges and arrests made by the forces of police.
Prior to replicate the harsh angry objections of the Council of Europe, the interior minister would do well to clarify the responsibilities of agents and managers who have participated in these violent evictions. But

Minister Maroni should be accountable, together with the Foreign Minister of the harsh criticism of the report Hammaberg against expulsions ordered by the Ministry of the Interior and the Italian police headquarters to countries which do not ensure respect for fundamental human rights.
the night of July 2, in particular, had been deported to Egypt 35 Egyptian nationals, hosted by the CIE (Center for identification and expulsion) of Lampedusa. ANSA
So call now at least what until a few days ago was called the Shelter, a shelter to five stars, "as stated during a lightning visit by the Minister Ronchi in June.
But you know, the names may change with the stroke of a pen, as has happened to the CPT CIE now, even the law by decree, depending on the political convenience of the government.
The charter flight, according to the news of the interior ministry, started at 2 am on July 2 from the airport of Catania to Cairo. This type of returns continues uninterrupted for a long time, but in the last three months the procedures were much more hasty and other flights without stopovers (technical) and the airport of Catania.

The operation, conducted by the Department of Public Safety, following a previous operation that allowed the repatriation of 38 citizens of Egyptian origin. The government has tried
in this way to "decongest" the structure of Lampedusa in late June that he had "received" more than 1,600 immigrants, saved by means of our navy while trying to cross the Strait of Sicily. The return flights from Lampedusa to Egypt, via Catania, meanwhile, seem to continue.
obviously needed to launch yet another deterrent message, and this has restored the practice of direct return from Lampedusa, in a manner very close to collective expulsion, a practice that in 2004, after the case Cap Anamur, a true milestone in the war against migrants , had cost Italy a condemnation by the European Court of Human Rights.
do not know whether the people targeted by the measure suppression of removal at the border have been notified of a refusal of entry or expulsion, if these measures and the detention in the CIE have been notified individually and validated by a magistrate, certainly in Lampedusa, there is neither a court nor a police station .

As had happened in 2004, there have been incidents along the way and a Moroccan immigrant, mistaken for an Egyptian, has been "returned" to Italy after it landed in Egypt. O
immigrants were repatriated to Egypt without formal action, as if Lampedusa did not belong to the Italian territory, as if it were a rejection of a common land border, with a grave abuse relevant even criminal, or were repatriated on the basis of unlawful measures taken outside the procedures laid down by the Consolidated Act on Immigration.
But as we know, once expelled from Italy, some migrants are unable to go to court administration.

After the condemnation of the Council of Europe with the ratio Hammarberg, confirming in full the allegations of anti-racist associations on book you will have to finally clear the way for forced repatriation, charged in recent months directly towards the island of Lampedusa ' Egypt or from other cities to countries like Tunisia and Libya, where they can be practiced torture or inhuman and degrading treatment.
While you are raising a smokescreen on the circumstances of the death of a migrant on the night of June 29 in the CID of Caltanissetta, for some, the young Ghanaian died in hospital in the center of Pian del Lago, for others during transport in ambulance, the government insists the perverse logic to multiply in detention centers throughout Italy, for the public to feed hungry security bodies of other migrants to be deported, perhaps chosen at random, or on the basis of relations with the embassies countries of origin, symbolic measures compared to the mass of secrecy that the government power to block the entrances to the legal and security measures in the package, but quite disturbing for many possibilities of life and integration that are being destroyed.

"Sicily is a land toward which the desperation of illegal immigrants.
The attacks (as they express the information agencies) that characterize either territorially in these hours the island of Lampedusa, are well known. Between 10-12 days maximum we will have 6 or 7 other centers identified for purposes of deportation 'in other regions of Italy.
This will allow us to avoid overcrowding of the few existing in the territory. "
few weeks ago I said undersecretary of the ministry of the interior, Francesco Nitto Palma, in Palermo for a summit with the presidents 9 provinces of Sicily. Now those threatening words start to become reality.

But the tougher treatment of illegal immigrants will not stop the attempts of some thousands of men, women and children trying to reach a life expectancy in Europe, fleeing from the hell of Libya.
At all costs, even at the cost of living. On their arrival in Italy these migrants will still be holding, transfer by bus with tinted windows and barbed wire.
Porto Empedocle, near Agrigento, has become, after Lampedusa, the real point to the sorting centers, to the identification and deportation centers, to the centers for asylum seekers (CARA).

Now we understand how the government will set up many detention centers in a few weeks, maybe even in Sicily, where in 2005 the CPT had been closed after an inspection of Agrigento, just by the Council of Europe, where in 2007 it was closed CPT female Ragusa after an inspection of the De Mistura Commission.
Times have now changed.
associations affiliated with the Prefectures and quotas for professional military strong man will soon step up to the police in Sicily for the transit sites characterized by a system of administrative detention.
Without any effective defense guarantee.
Any abuse by managers and law enforcement agencies will be covered, order of the Minister of the day.
What we care about Europe? We fear that we are going to further barbarism of the rules of detention, possibly with the use of practitioners of the "humanitarian wars" and the army barracks, with the usual coverage of the Red Cross and associations who have accepted the role of guards.

We fear that migrants died in Turin, in the CPT on Via Brunelleschi and Caltanissetta, at Pian of the lake, it soon may follow other.
Certainly in recent weeks the atmosphere is tense in detention centers, beatings are commonplace, the use of psychotropic drugs in normal, and controls the legality of the justices of the peace more and more formal, often limited to verification of documents as if it were a simple stamp affixed.
But after the sentence "farce" of politicians and police torturers in Genoa during the G8 in 2001, everything seems to be allowed to "police".
Every day that passes is consumed more and more serious rupture between the police and the citizens who are not resigned to the role of subjects.
a break that could have been avoided punishing to the bottom of the responsibility for the torture of protesters in Genoa, and avoiding widespread practice of violence against immigrants, arbitrary practices that now the Council of Europe criticized Italy.

Many migrants arrested by police in cities of northern Italy were transferred while in prison or in the CPT / CIE south, creating a situation of overcrowding and confusion with the newly arrived immigrants from Lampedusa or other landing sites.
Exactly the same situation that had arisen in 1999, before the fire and the massacre of the center of Trapani Serraino Vulpitta for which now, nine years later, the civil courts call into question the very serious responsibility of the police who do not intervened in time to extinguish the fire that also claimed the lives of six migrants detained in a cell transformed into a crematorium.
For all these reasons, we urge an initiative even stronger denunciation, mobilization and defense legal migrants detained in detention centers.
An appeal to all groups, without grandstanding or ambitions of vision that could jeopardize the collective work, which has been working for years in the territories to protect the lives and rights of migrants.

ask that, in the same spirit, the national and European parliamentarians will return periodically to visit detention centers and prisons to monitor conditions in all the structures in which they are imprisoned migrants without a residence permit.
standing groups should be established to monitor places where it can be violated personal freedom and other fundamental human rights. In the light of Adoption of the EU directive on returns, "the directive of shame" to prevent that they be used as an instrument, perhaps extending up to 18 months imprisonment in deportation centers (CIE).

The extension of the period of administrative detention centers could turn into real powder kegs, without increasing the chances of identification of the cd. illegal.
should all contribute to building a broad front to denounce the Italian legislation and the new directive on returns before the Court of Justice, and raise our country's constitutional exceptions to the chain, not just the application you want to give our legal system. It should also report all cases such as new rules or new administrative practices they are in violation of the right of asylum and fundamental rights, recognized to all persons, by our Constitution, before the Community rules and the Geneva Convention.

Author: Fulvio Vassallo