Caltanissetta: At Villa Amedeo, meeting the new residents of the CAS on Via Niscemi

We continue with out monitoring outside the welcome centres in the province of Caltanissetta. The choice of monitoring outside the centres is a direct consequence of the authorisation by the prefecture, which includes conditions which we find unacceptable and in contrast with our association’s primary aim to safeguard asylum seekers’ rights. Thus last week I […]

A young asylum seeker dies after being run over on the highway of Pian del Lago

The young men run over on the highway of the hamlet Pian del Lago last April 10 (Il Fatto Nisseno), did not survive. He died last April 20, on the intensive care unit at the hospital of Saint Elia of Caltanissetta. We were able to obtain this news through informal channels only 10 days later. […]

Elderly Asylum Seekers kept waiting outside CARA Pian del Lago for 24 hours

Last Wednesday we published the relative information regarding the transfer of 60 migrants, who had arrived in Palermo on the 14th of April, and were transferred that very morning to the CARA* of Pian del Lago. The centre was suddenly able to provide dozens of places, even though there was a list of Asylum Seekers […]

How the denial of rights develops into illegality and abuse of power

Last week four asylum seekers housed at the reception centre at Pian del Lago were reported by the Financial Guard, who caught them selling cigarettes distributed in the centre, at the nearby market place. This is not a new phenomenon in the city and a proper analysis of the dynamics which have led to this […]

A week of protests in the Province of Caltanissetta

It has been a week of intense protests in several reception centres in the province of Caltanissetta. On January 13, about fifty residents of the CAS* which is located inside the Public Institute for Assistance and Charity of Pagano (where about 150 asylum seekers are living at the moment) protested against the intolerably long waiting […]

Transfers in refugee camps due to the lack of places in reception centers: 36 Nigerians deported

On April 25, 36 Nigerian men arrived in Porto Empedocle on the naval ship Cassiopea and were brought to the reception center Villa Sikania (Sicily). On May 8, the Prefettura issued deportation notices for the 36 men. The group of Nigerians were subjected to pre-notification while the migrants were waiting to be placed in a […]

Pian del Lago – the container bathroom in the CARA-centre

Video of the bathroom in one of the containers in the centre for asylum seekers in Caltanissetta, Pian del Lago. Borderline Sicilia got this video in march 2014.

Activation of self-management at Pian del Lago

The immigrants are getting organised inorder to alleviate the long waiting times in front of the Office for Foreigners, which has been transferred to within the Centre.From Corriereimmigrazione.it – the site of the three-in-one Centre of Pian del Lago (which includes an Immigrant Detention Centre (CIE), a Reception Centre (CDA) and a Hosting Centre for […]

Migrants escape from the Caltanisetta Detention Centre- “the situation is unsustainable”

Blog Sicilia- 10 immigrants attempted to escape from the Pian del Lago Detention Centre in Caltanisetta. The incident occurred when the immigrants initiated a riot to protest against the living conditions within the Centre. In order to escape, they destroyed the door of one of the rooms and tried to force open one of the […]

Migrants transferred from Lampedusa but Thursday’s survivors stay

While search and rescue operations continue in the sea between Lampedusa and Lampione for survivors of last Thursday’s sinking, those already on the island of Lampedusa continue to be transferred to other destinations. Yesterday evening, a group of 17 Tunisians who arrived on Lampedusa in the last couple of days, were sent to the hangar […]