That obtained by LasciateCIEntrare has been a very important victory, but it is now important that journalists will take advantage of it and use it to write stories denouncing the inhumane conditions in which the immigrants are kept both in Cie and in Cara. Up until now those conditions have only been described by the Italian parliament and European Union delegations that have visited those facilities before the opening to the press. Many have reported to have seen or heard the immigrants talk about mistreatments and to have seen damp and moldy mattresses on the ground, filthy bathrooms and overcrowded cells with people kept in inhumane conditions. Furthermore these facilities cost millions of Euros. Cie and Cara have also been described as actual detention centers, armored as maximum security prisons, although out of the criminal legal order because the detentions there are considered administrative ones. The detainees are immigrants found without their residence permit or Asylum Seekers.
"At the Immigrants detention center of Trapani there is no water in the toilets, the shower water is cold, the dorms are over crowded. Under these conditions it is very difficult to protect human dignity", said UE parliamentary Cecilia Wikstrom after visiting Trapani's Cara in November.
There are incredible stories on Cie and Cara such as that of a teenager for Bologna locked in a Cie by mistake, or of a woman that after denouncing her boyfriend for violence was locked in the same facility, or the better known international story of a Tunisian man with a pregnant Dutch wife that was locked in a Cie notwithstanding his European wife and a Schengen visa.
LasciateCIEntrare is now launching a new campaign in which it offers to help journalists to deepen their knowledge on the matter and to help spread the news that they will produce on that. To give more information and launch the campaign a conference will be held at the Fnsi headquarters in Rome on January 30th from 10 am to 1.00 pm. An application form to visit Cie and Cara is available in the document section of this website
Updated Cie list:
Bari-Palese, area aeroportuale
Bologna, Caserma Chiarini
Brindisi, Loc. Restinco
Catanzaro, Lamezia Terme
Gorizia, Gradisca d’Isonzo
Milano, Via Corelli
Modena, Località Sant’Anna
Roma, Ponte Galeria
Torino, Corso Brunelleschi
Trapani, Serraino Vulpitta
Trapani, loc Milo |
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LasciateCIEntrare (Let us in) The Committee supported by Fnsi that obtained the cancellation of the "no entry" to media to CIE (Identification and Expulsion Centers for immigrants) and Cara (Centers for Asylum Seekers) is now asking journalists to do enquiries and reportages on these facilities and to ask authorities to visit them.
