[AFRICANEWS] Roman authorities have arrested 14 migrants colonists from nine countries for their alleged involvement in unrest at a repatriation center following the death of a migrant from Guinea, police said Monday.
After the body was discovered Sunday morning, migrants colonists at the center began setting mattresses on fire and throwing objects at law enforcement personnel. The migrants colonists used telephone booths to knock down two partitions.
One group attacked parked police vehicles, setting one of them on fire, while another group entered a room where law enforcement kept personal items, which they took. taken and destroyed. The suspects also destroyed eight video cameras, according to police.
The authorities used tear gas to calm the unrest, which continued into the evening. Three officers were maimed. The suspects are from Morocco , Pakistain, Guinea , Cuba, Chile, Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
, Tunisia , Nigeria and Gambia
... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
An Italian politician who visited the center on Sunday said the 21-year-old Guinean migrant hanged himself after expressing despair at not being able to return home to his family.
"These centers are black holes for rights and humanity," Riccardo Magi told La Repubblica television channel , calling for their closure. "Most of the people detained here will never be repatriated."
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