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Young Migrants Abused: “He Can Spit Blood For All I Care”
/in Catania/Mineo /by Borderline SiciliaLiveSiciliaCatania – MASCALI. Big business in the migrant reception sector – particularly of unaccompanied foreign minors – is at the centre of an inquiry opened this morning by Operation Camaleonte. On request of the public prosecutor in Catania, an order for cautionary imprisonment has been made for Giovanni Pellizzeri – 56, employee of the provincial health service, […]
Borderline Sicilia Mobilises Against The Catania Landning Of the Anti-Migrant Ship
/in Catania/Mineo /by Borderline SiciliaBorderline Sicilia is backing the call-out launched by antiracist groups in Catania against the proposed landing of the C-Star in the port of Catania. The ship has been hired froman British mercenary company by the far-right organisation ‘Generazione Identitaria” , as Andrea Palladino reported in Famiglia Cristiana yesterday. The racist, xenophobic group’s aim is to carry out […]
“They Leave As People, They Arrive As Ghosts” Shipwrecks And Push-Backs At Sea. Italy Closes The Doors, Including To Those Who Manage To Arrive
/in Catania/Mineo, Ragusa/Pozzallo /by Borderline SiciliaOn June 12th a Swedish ship belonging to Frontex landed at Catania, with 356 migrants on board and 8 bodies. The survivors spoke of a dozen missing and the collapse of their rubber boat, packed with people far beyond its capacity. Only a few days later, a group of Sudanese migrants reported a boat which […]
The Vos Prudence Lands at Catania
/in Catania/Mineo /by Borderline SiciliaYesterday morning, Médecins Sans Frontières‘ vessel, the Vos Prudence, landed the bodies of another six people who died at the border. Five of them are young women, whose bodies seemed to have remained at sea for around a week before being recovered from international waters, respectively 42 and 20 nautical miles from the Libyan coast. […]
The Initial Reception Centre for Minors in Giarre: The Residents Speak Out
/in Catania/Mineo /by Borderline SiciliaGiarre, a small town of around 27,000 people in the foothills of Etna, has been host to a range of centres for unaccompanied minors. We have previously reported and officially complained about the serious issues at these projects, which were consequentially closed by Social Services, only to be reopened by the same managing bodies elsewhere, […]
Remembering The Largest Massacre in the Mediterranean, And All Migrants Who Continue To Die At Sea
/in Catania/Mineo /by Borderline SiciliaOn the night between the 17th and 18th of April 2015, 800 people lost their lives in the largest shipwreck in the central Mediterranean Sea since the Second World War. Bangladesh, Eritrea, Nigeria and Somalia are just some of the countries where the migrants originally came from who, after departing Libya in their desperate attempt […]
New Rejections, Arrests and Hotspots: The Migrants Italy Does Not Want to Protect But Continues to Exploit
/in Catania/Mineo /by Borderline SiciliaAround 250 people in just one landing: this is the number of migrants, almost all Moroccans, who were handed rejection notices immediately after arriving in Pozzallo over a week ago on board the Golfo Azzurro. Photocopied rejection notices which impose that you leave the Italian state within seven days, via Fiumicino airport in Rome. This […]
“We Can’t Stop”. The Signs Of The Borders Written On The Bodies Of Those Who Arrive
/in Catania/Mineo, Syracuse /by Borderline Sicilia“It was a long journey, but I put some money aside from my ‘pay’ these last few months. And I had an accident too, when my finger was crushed. My friends took me to the hospital and they had to amputate it. I’m better now though, I’m in a reception centre, I can talk and […]
Recovered or Saved? Criminalisation of the Sea Missions and Still More Slaughter At Sea
/in Catania/Mineo /by Borderline SiciliaA few hours ago the news broke of the latest, horrendous shipwreck off the coast of Libya, in which it is thought around 240 people lost their lives, according to the account of the NGO Pro-Activa Open Arms, which recovered five cadavers found near to two empty rubber boats. On March 20th another 38 deaths […]
Unaccompanied Foreign Minors: An Open-Air Orphanage
/in Catania/Mineo /by Borderline SiciliaFrom Repubblica.it According to data from the Ministry of the Interior, 25,846 minors arrived in Italy via the Mediterranean in 2016. Sicily is the region which hosts the highest proportion of them. As part of a project to monitor the new reception centres, the Guarantor for Childhood and Adolescence visited Catania and Noto. Oxfam […]