There are no precedents to what is happening nowadays in Italy and in Sicily: migrant citizens forcedly repatriated right after their disembarkment at Sicilian shores, these are real mass deportations. There are no precedents in Italy but there are somewhere else in the world: in places and areas where market and command strategies produce laws that clash with the laws of humanity and they therefore re-draw geography.
In Australia, for instance, the government cancelled dozens of islands from its geographical maps in order not to recognise the right to asylum to migrant citizens that reach Oceanic shores.
In Spain bilateral agreements signed with Moroccan government moved European borders South to Africa. These southern borders already host detention centres, where migrants are run by Spanish guards and by Moroccan army, who uncontrolled commit terror acts such tortures and manhunts all over the area. Moroccan cities have become new boundaries, new borders, where migrant workers flows are managed according to the needs of EU economy: agriculture seasonal workers employed in Spain, factory workers employed in Spanish industries in Morocco, etc.
In Belgium, France and the Netherlands governments jointly rent aeroplanes from the army to mass deport migrants with no papers.
In Romania migrants expelled from Austria and Switzerland are detained in houses of detention financed by Austrian government and run by Romanian police.
Mass deportations from Lampedusa towards Libya are a new precedent in Italy, partly anticipated by the shameful fact related to Cap Anamur boat people. Agreement, signed by Italy and Libya, inaugurate the principle of unstable/moving borderlines, which means that borders are an economical device nowadays.
While Lampedusa becomes invisible in our geographical maps because the ones that arrive there are not safeguarded in their human rights (as provided for by Geneva Convention, 1951, by EU Convention, by Italian Constitution and by Immigration consolidated act), Italy and EU are authorising new monstrosities: detention centres in Libya.
New detention centres, opened under EU intelligence control and under Lybic army control, are also to become places where migrant rightsless workers are going to be employed.
No one can shut their eyes in front of this barbarity.
We stand with the ones that take position against all human rights violations and that take action against these extremely serious facts that should never occur.
Global fortresses, denied rights
