Migrants did not attack police
officers outside a migrant camp but instead tried to prevent the
"brutal arrest" of a 26-year-old Gambian asylum seeker who was
handcuffed to the tire of a police car, an organization
representing migrant rights said Wednesday, publishing a video
on Facebook.
The farm workers' committee 'Campagne in lotta' said there
was no "vile aggression" against the officers by some 50
migrants on Monday at the asylum seeker processing center at
Borgo Mezzanone after the police stopped the Gambian, Omar
Jallow, as police union SAP previously claimed.
In the video, the Gambian man is seen handcuffed to the tire
of a police car, agitated and with a wounded arm, while a friend
tries to medicate him and a group of migrants is screaming:
"Leave him alone, he is not an animal".
Meanwhile on Wednesday Interior Minister and Deputy Premier
Matteo Salvini said Jallow, an asylum seeker, will be expelled
from Italy in record time.
"Protection denied! These criminal fake refugees" must leave
Italy, said Salvini.
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