When Public And Private Companies Take Care Of The Migrant Business

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 Antoniomazzeo.blogspot.it – The millions of Euros circulating in the migrant “welcoming” business in Italy are not only handed over to pseudo-cooperatives and fake non-profits, but even a construction company and a publicly limited company entirely in government ownership. This much can be gleaned from the “Report on the Working of the Reception System Established for Dealing […]

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Landing at Messina on March 22, and the Amal Reception Centre for Minors (formerly the Liberty)

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On March 22nd we assisted with a landing at Messina which brought the number of people to have arrived in the city since January up to 1,269. The landing, carried out by the Spanish ship Canarias (EUNAVFOR-MED), involved 636 people, including some women and children. The pre-identification operations and consequent transferrals from the port to […]

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Messina: The Tent-City at PalaNebiolo Finally Taken Down. For Three And A Half Years It Housed Asylum Seekers In Shameful Conditions

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From Stampalibera.it Three and a half years since its transformation into a centre of bad reception for asylum seekers fleeing from war, famine and ecological crimes, the PalaNebiolo stadium at Conca d’Oro dell’Annunziata, property of the University of Messina, will perhaps finally return to being a baseball pitch for training the local teams. The work […]

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Miss, I’m Sorry, But I Have To Inform You That Your Son Has Been Killed

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There have been too many, far too many phone calls over the last week. Too many messages from mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters looking for information about their loved ones, prisoners of our war on migrants. A battle which claims its victims every day: the last ones – if only they were truly the […]

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Messina: A Mega Tent-City for Migrants in the Old ‘Gasparro’ Barracks. The €1,932,000 Contract Already Announced in the Official Gazette. And that’s not all…

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By Stampalibera.it In a few months’ time the former barracks of ‘Gasparro’ in Messina (in the urban area of Bisconte) will be transformed into one of the largest centres in Italy for the forced “welcoming” of those migrants awaiting the authorities’ decision on whether they will be eventually relocated to other structures for asylum seekers […]

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New Landing Procedures or Simply Chaos? The Example of a “Delayed Landing” at Messina

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“In aleis strenua – in pugna invicta”: “Resolute in venture, invincible in battle.” This is the motto of the Italian navy’s imposing vessel the Virginio Fasan (F591), the unusually long stop-over of which at the port of Messina drew the curiosity of passers-by. It raised doubts and some confusion among the local activists, readily expressed […]

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Don’t Worry Dad, I’ll Die Happy Because You’re Alive At Least

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I cannot but feel pain when confronted by the death of an innocent, and the thought that someone you love might lose their life in such an unjust way sends a long, cold shiver down your spine. The news that a father had to leave his small daughter dead at sea so as to try […]

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So Many Arrivals, So Little Protection. Migrants In Ever Worse Conditions And Abandoned To Themselves.

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In only a few days 4,500 people have been rescued and brought to the main Sicilian ports: Pozzallo, Augusta, Catania, Messina, Porto Empedocle and Palermo. The arrival of such a high number of migrants paradoxically corresponds to refugees’ extraordinary invisibility and the lack of protection for them. As always happens when there are various landings […]

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Visit to the former barracks of Gasparro in Bisconte, Messina

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On the 7th of March we have entered the former barracks of Gasparro in Bisconte (or ‘ex-caserma’ in Italian) together with a couple of activists of Messina and with Francesco D’Uva, a congress man of the Movimento 5 Stelle. We arrived around 17.00 o’clock and found the door open, the entrance guarded by a surveillance […]

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A hotspot in Messina instead of Augusta–What is a hotspot and what are the differences to other first reception centers?

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Source: Tempostretto For three years now the city of Messina in Sicily is constantly occupied with the routine state of emergency of the reception of migrants. People arrive at the city pier on a daily basis, the former barracks of Bisconte remain active and, moreover, reception continues in the tent city of Pala Nebiolo, depending […]

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