centri di permanenza per i rimpatri

  “In your city there is a concentration camp”.It's there complaint activists who have been fighting for years for the closure of the CPR (Permanence Centers for Repatriations), real black holes where foreign citizens without a regular residence permit end up, and sometimes even lose their lives. With a total capacity of 1,100 places, there are ten centers currently operational in Milan, Turin, Gradisca d'Isonzo, Rome-Ponte Galeria, Palazzo San Gervasio, Macomer, Brindisi-Restinco, Bari-Palese, Trapani-Milo and Caltanissetta-Pian del Lake. These are structures that in over twenty years have produced a long trail of despair, violence And dead.Established in 1998 by the centre-left government led by Romano Prodi with the immigration law Turco-Napolitano, the centers were initially called CPTA (Temporary Permanence and Assistance Centres), then CIE (Identification and Expulsion Centres) and finally renamed CPR with the law Minniti-Orlando of...