Category: Detention Center

“Even a dog is not treated like that”: refusal of care and obstetrical violence against a prisoner at Mesnil-Amelot detention center (France)

Published on 13/08/2022 – translation from : abaslescra.noblogs We publish here the testimony of a detainee in the Mesnil-Amelot detention centre. She was four months pregnant at the time of her arrest, and tried throughout her detention to resist the physical and psychological violence that the cops inflicted on her to make her comply. She was…

By passamontagna 14 August 2022 Off

Revolt in Mesnil Amelot’ detention center: “Everyone just wanted to be free”

Revolt in Mesnil Amelot’ detention center: “Everyone just wanted to be free”

Translated from – abaslescra.noblogs.org – 10/08/2022 Between Saturday and Sunday (6/7 August), a revolt broke out in Mesnil-Amelot, in the largest administrative detention centre in France. It is the umpteenth rebellion that shakes this prison for undocumented migrants, after the fire of January 2021, the hunger strike of March 2021, the collective escape of July 2021,…

By passamontagna 13 August 2022 Off

Police violence and harsh detention conditions at the CRA in Nîmes

Police violence and harsh detention conditions at the CRA in Nîmes

Published on 20 May 2022 – Marseilleanticra.noblog Four people locked up in the Nîmes administrative detention centre recount the very complicated situation they are currently in. In the administrative detention centre of Nîmes (CRA) the sanitary conditions are catastrophic, especially at the moment due to two simultaneous epidemics of scabies and coronavirus. The police do…

By passamontagna 21 May 2022 Off

Police strategies: false flight dates, false test refusals, false boarding refusals at the CRA in Marseille

Below is an article and the testimony of a detainee at the CRA in Marseille (detention centre) with an expulsion order to Italy under Dublin procedures on his back. from Marseilleanticra.noblogs.org The gendarmes’ lies send the people detained in the centre to prison. For example, one of them explains in this article how the police…

By passamontagna 17 May 2022 Off

Update from Turin’s

Update from Turin’s

published on 2022/04/21 on No Cpr Torino  Two months after the beginning of the mandate of ORS s.r.l. for the management of the CPR (detention center)  in Turin, protests and riots follow one another in the Centre. We received a phone call from two detainees who wanted to tell us what has been happening in…

By passamontagna 23 April 2022 Off

Partners. About returns and detention centers

Partners. About returns and detention centers

published on 2022/04/17 in No Cpr Torino The Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese, during the parliamentary session last Wednesday, April 13, responded to a parliamentary question put by the deputy of the League (Lega Nord) Igor Giancarlo Iezzi on the subject “Initiatives to limit the landings of migrants on the Italian coasts, in light…

By passamontagna 23 April 2022 Off