Musa Balde

<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...