CPR

  “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...

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> Musa Balde was 23 years old and born in Guinea:on the night of Saturday 22 May he took his own life in the Repatriation Center (CPR) in Turin, where he had been locked up in medical isolation for some time.Last May 9, in Ventimiglia, he was attacked by three men.They beat him with sticks, kicks and punches outside a shopping centre, accusing him of an attempted theft of a mobile phone. Musa had been taken to the Bordighera hospital due to the consequences of the beating which had caused him injuries and facial trauma.But Musa was also, or perhaps above all, an undocumented migrant.An expulsion order was pending against him.And by a strange mechanism this status erased his condition as a victim.Once released from the hospital, Balde was decided to be...