Women in the bustling
asylum-seeker reception centre (CARA) at Mineo in Sicily are
afraid of being raped after a string of cases, Caltagirone
prosecutor Giuseppe Verzera told ANSA Thursday. "The arrest of a
Pakistani a few days ago for sexual violence committed against a
Nigerian woman is the umpteenth confirmation that the facility,
which currently hosts around 3,500 migrants, is unmanageable and
a serious problem for public order," he said, citing the
"numerous cases of abuse registered and not all reported, so
much so that there are a lot of women there who live in fear of
being raped". The CARA at Mineo near Catania is Europe's biggest
migrant centre for asylum seekers. It has seen a string of
protests by migrants over living conditions in the past.
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