Some 20 immigrants being held
at Rome's Ponte Galeria Centre for Identification and Expulsion
(CIE) on Friday set their mattresses on fire to protest living
conditions there.
The Ponte Galeria CIE is no stranger to controversy. In
January, 26 people being held there went on hunger strike after
13 Moroccan nationals sewed their mouths shut with needle and
thread in protest.
Similar protests were mounted in December after authorities
emptied a controversial holding facility on the island of
Lampedusa, south of Sicily, which was at the centre of an
international furore when a video was broadcast showing naked
migrants being sprayed with disinfectants outside in the cold of
winter.
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