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From	"Ya basta!" <yabasta@tin.it>
Date	Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:18:34 +0200
Subject	globe_l: CORELLI IN FLAMES - QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT

CORELLI IN FLAMES - QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT

Milan, 23 September, 6.00 p.m.

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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