The unaccompanied minors transferred from Gravitelli gym to Villa Solaria

Villa Solaria is a retirement home situated in the village of Sant’Alessio and run by the cooperative “Azione Sociale”. Within the retirement home it was launched a project for the reception of unaccompanied minors under the urgency decree of the Messina municipality, which set up the transfer of 60 unaccompanied minors last October, as a […]

Pala Nebiolo in Messina: Forceful Fingerprinting and Lying to Those in Need of Protection

At the end of the seminar “Sicily, crossroads of the Mediterranean: Between open war and (open) borders,” which we attended on January 30th, we went to the Palanebiolo* with representatives of Migralab to monitor the situation there throughout interviews with some of the inhabitants. We immediately met a group of migrants, mainly people from Somalia […]

New landings at Augusta and Pozzallo

Migrants’ journey has not ended yet. Last week-end about 940 migrants were rescued offshore Sicily, in eight different operations. 258 of them arrived at Augusta’s port onboard of Belgian frigate Leopold Ist, in the morning of Friday, november 7, within EUNAVFORMED mission. Newspapers already write of the capture of 4 presumed smugglers, omitting the fate […]

The business of bad welcoming in Messina

Antonio Mazzeo – Messina, city of bad welcoming. Hundreds of refugees are half-hidden in the tent city of PalaNebiolo, the former baseball pitch at Conca d’Oro-Annunziata, owned by the Messina University. Forty degrees in the shade in summer, the cold touches zero in winter. When it rains, however, it’s still worse: without any drainage, the […]

Messina. The minors have been transferred from the gym of Gravitelli

It is with pleasure when the association Borderline Sicilia learned about the transfer of 58 minors from the gym of Gravitelli where they were located, towards two reception facilities – also considering the fact that the flooding on the night of October 14, had further worsened the already bad living conditions in the building, showing […]

Messina, controversy on the reception of unaccompanied minors and on the tent camp of Pala Nebiolo

Many of the articles regarding the diatribe between the major of Messina, Renato Accorinti, and the prefect, Stefano Trotta, on the issue of unaccompanied minors have been published the last days. Two months before the deadline for handing over the management of the facility for unaccompanied minors in the structure of the former Ipab* ‘Scandurra […]

Holocaust at Sea, Messina welcomes 683 refugees and 2 dead bodies. Many among them are minors

From tempostretto.it – The disembarcation from this morning is not like the previous ones; here the vessel Diciotti from the Coast Guard, arriving at around 8 o’ clock, has disembarked 683 women and men, rescued in the Channel of Sicily two days ago, in the days when two boats drowned, causing more than 100 casualties. […]

New boat arrivals in Messina, Augusta and Pozzallo. Another 14 deaths and the hypocrisy of emergency continues

During the morning of the 29th July 453 migrants arrived in Messina along with the 14 bodies of those who did not survive the crossing. The first thing which those on the scene spoke of was the “the strong smell of death” . The fact that it could even be smelt from the sidelines offers […]

Disappearing among the large numbers

They have reached the port of Catania tonight, the survivors of the immense tragedy of these days. 950 missing people to which are added new victims of the shipwreck that happened in the Aegean Sea this night, and others scattered on the coasts of Libya. These tragic numbers announced after the recent tragedies leave without […]

It rains and the field is flooded. Member of the European Parliament Eleonora Forenza: “The camp needs to be closed down”

From Tempostretto A flooded field and migrants in the mud: nothing new in the camp close of PalaNebiolo. After the last heavy rain, the baseball field is in an alarmingly critical condition. Firefighters already reported the cause of the problem during an inspection in October 2013: a defective drainage system of the baseball field leads […]