A migrant burst into the
asylum-seeker reception centre (CARA) in Foggia and attacked the
director on Thursday, local sources said.
The migrant threatened the director with violence and
demanded 50 euros from him, the sources said.
The incident happened at the CARA at Borgo Mezzanone on the
outskirts of Foggia.
Carabinieri arrested the migrant, 26-year-old Nigerian Kelvin
Iwekub, on charges of attempted extortion and resisting arrest.
Iwekub left the centre some time ago, sources said.
Migrants allegedly attacked police, hurting two, at the
Foggia CAR earlier this week after cops handcuffed a Gambian
migrant to their car.
But an organization representing migrant rights said
Wednesday, publishing a video on Facebook, that the migrants did
not attack police officers but instead tried to prevent the
"brutal arrest" of the 26-year-old Gambian asylum seeker.
The farm workers' committee 'Campagne in lotta' said there
was no "cowardly 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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