Gradisca d’Isonzo (Gorizia): The detention centre shall not open!!!

Mr Giuseppe Pisanu, Home Office secretary, declared that the new detention centres in Gradisca d’Isonzo (Gorizia) and in Bari will immediately open.
This declaration came back on Saturday, February 25th. Minister Pisanu also stated that “the detention centre in Gradisca would have opened the latest on February the 28th”.
Therefore associations, movements and local institutions that have been fighting against the opening of the centre got together and formed a new committee, the “assemblea permanente contro il cpt” (permanent assembly against the detention centre). The assembly launched a three-day presence outside the gates of the centre.
The gathering started early in the morning of February 27th and protestors avoided that cars and vans form the Minerva cooperative (the one that is going to manage the detention centre). Minerva is a social co-operative involved in different fields and it run for the contract of the detention centre after others quit the proposal. The are asking 75 Euro each detainee a day, which makes of Minerva the strongest co-operative in the region. They will probably be able to cut down prices on other activities and this is unfair competition. Green Cross therefore appealed to TAR court against this and the sentence should be soon issued.
Let’s go back to the mobilisations outside the detention centre: on the first day police clashed activists that were trying to stop vans from entering the centre. They were badly clashed against, especially Mr Alessandro Metz, regional councillor for the Greens.
Mr Metz has always been strongly involved in the opposition towards detention centres and this is why he was severely beaten by police.
He managed to enter some time ago inside the buildings and he reported, together with other politicians, that the detention centre in Gradisca is “the Italian Guantanamo”.
Beds, chairs, tables: everything is fixed to the floor, as you can see in the exclusive pictures published on GlobalProject (http://www.globalproject.info/gal-7304.html).
The day after, on February 28th, activists were again outside the detention centre and again they blocked cars and vans, with police clashing against them.
A novelty though occurred: car plates were disguised as well as Minerva’s operators faces.
Activists are re-organising their mobilisation now but the goal was reached: Gradisca’s detention centre is today still closed!

See also: against the opening of the detention centre (http://www.globalproject.info/art-7612.html)