AUT: (fwd) (en) Italy, CORELLI concentration camp for deportees IN FLAMES - QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT (fwd)

[pmargin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Wright)]

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>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:19:16 -0400
>From: "Ya basta! <yabasta@xxxxxx> (by way of infocentrum wageningen)"
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>Subject: (en) Italy,
>     CORELLI concentration camp for deportees IN FLAMES - QUESTIONS IN
>    PARLIAMENT
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>Via Corelli, new revolts, more beatings, more wounded.
>
>The institutions continue to keep silent, to hide the facts, to pretend
>nothing is happening.
>
>Today the prisoners of the Via Corelli camp rebelled once again, setting
>fire to tables to try and attract attention and escape in any way possible
>from behind those bars.
>
>There followed an incursion by the ìforces of law and orderî with helmets
>and truncheons, who re-established order in their own way, causing a large
>number of casualties and intense ambulance traffic.  IT WAS A TRUE BEATING,
>AIMED AT RE-ESTABLISHING ORDER AND TERROR INSIDE THE MILAN CONCENTRATION
>CAMP.  Even a fireman was overcome by smoke in the attempt to put out the
>fire.
>
>We must remember that this is only the latest in a series of similar
>episodes that have taken place inside the Corelli camp, where we have seen
>people deported under the effect of drugs, accusations of violence towards
>women, self-inflicted bodily harm, suicide attempts.
>
>The speakers at the two-day conference, ìTHE ALIENSí CONFERENCE - Migrants
>without papers and refugees -  from possible alternatives, to the network
>for the closure of the prison campsî, asked for access to be granted during
>the sit-in to be held on Sunday 26 September at 4.00 p.m. at the Corelli
>camp, in order to check on conditions inside.
>
>In the light of the most recent events, it seems particularly important that
>this check should be carried out but the buck is already being passed as to
>whose responsibility it is to grant access.
>
>WE MUST REVEAL THE BARBAROUS ATTITUDE OF THE ìFORCES OF LAW AND ORDERî AND
>THE NECESSITY TO TEAR DOWN THE VEILS THAT CONCEAL THE MILAN PRISON CAMP,
>MAKING IT INACCESSIBLE TO ANY KIND OF MONITORING.
>
>The Hon. Paolo Cento has announced his intention to present urgent questions
>to Parliament on the subject of todayís events in the Corelli camp.
>
>Milan, 23 September, 2.00 p.m.
>
>26 September, 4.00 p.m., Visit to the Milan prison camp.
>The Questura will not grant access.
>Will this be granted by the Prefettura?
>
>We accept betsÖ..
>
>Today the Questura refused the application to visit the ìTemporary Residence
>Centreî for immigrants without papers, in Via Corelli, Milan.
>
>The application regarded access to the cityís prison camp by Don Andrea
>Gallo, Don Luigi Ciotti, Alessandro Dal Lago,  Marco Revelli, Salavatore
>Palidda, Alessandro Mezzadra, Bruno Menotti (from the Ya Basta! Association
>and the Leoncavallo Social centre) and the other speakers at the two-day
>conference to be held at the Leoncavallo Social Centre on the theme, ìTHE
>ALIENSí CONFERENCE - Migrants without papers and refugees - from possible
>alternatives, to the network for the closure of the prison campsî.
>
>As usual we see the beginning of the buck-passing game - the Questura passes
>the buck to the Prefettura, which, during the last few monthsí experience of
>observation and filing of complaints from inside the centre, has shown rigid
>indifference.
>
>Conversations only in the presence of jailers?  Immigrants without papers,
>forcefully deported after having been drugged, wake up in a country that is
>not theirs?  Constant revolts and fighting subdued by the use of force?
>Suicide attempts and self-inflicted bodily harm, in order to be sent to
>hospital and at least get out of the camp?  The Prefettura has never made
>any comments.
>
>In times of summits on security, the mechanisms of the expulsion machinery
>for immigrant-criminals are to be flaunted and praised without a trace of
>uncertainty, quickly wiping away the blood.  And city prison camps, like the
>one in Via Corelli, must remain hidden, invisible, inaccessible to any kind
>of check on their viability.
>
>This is the reason why all these ëillegal aliensí have made an appointment
>where they will reflect and take action, to suggest possible alternatives to
>the expulsion machinery and to observe and make known the conditions they
>observe inside the camp.
>
>
>The Questura will not grant access. Will this be granted by the Prefettura?
>We accept betsÖ..
>
>Ya Basta! Association - Lombardy.  Leoncavallo Social Centre.
>
>
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