A group of parliamentarians decided to go to Albania to see for themselves detention centers that Italy built in a town in the northwest of the country. It was enough to see them from the outside for them to be called “shame centers”.
An affirmation reiterated by those who also had the opportunity to see them from the inside. Italian MP Riccardo Magi was the first to travel to Albania to oversee the controversial centers to which Giorgia Meloni’s government sends immigrants arriving in Italy, and upon his departure he expressed outrage at what he considers as “a prison colony”. shameful” and “absurd”.
After seeing it, the MP pointed out that “it has all the characteristics of a concentration camp.”
Inside these mesh barracks hide human stories. One of the Egyptian refugees told his story. “After leaving the army, I arrived in Libya. I stayed there for nine months in a reception center. They forced me to work as a mason in a construction company, even though I had paid the “equivalent of 8,500 euros for the trip.”
To the Italian deputies who were able to speak with him A scar on his face caught their attention. “It’s a cannon shot from one of my captors,” he explained.
Another refugee says he’s devastated, and that’s it He couldn’t even talk to his people. “I am worried because I have not yet been able to speak to my family. I have children in Egypt,” he admitted.
NOW, They fear being sent back to their country. “I can’t go back, they would kill me. I was kidnapped in a building where in every room there was a person who had been kidnapped,” said a refugee facing death threats in Bangladesh.
After seeing what their fate was, they admit that if they had known, they would have tried to swim to Lampedusa.
