Italian government is facing widespread criticism from home and abroad with possibility of legal action after a shocking video showing abusive treatment of migrants. The video was reportedly filmed on a mobile phone at a holding center on
the island of Lampedusa.
Huffington post report that (Huffpost)
"The Italian government vowed to investigate the treatment of migrants at its refugee centers Tuesday, as Italian officials publicly denounced the conditions depicted in the video. Lampedusa Mayor Giusi Nicolini related the images to Nazi-era concentration camps, while Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta vowed to punish anyone responsible, according to the Agence France-Presse."
The European Commission also threatened legal action
Wednesday for a possible breach of the European Union's asylum rules, Reuters
reports.
"New images from Lampedusa are appalling and
unacceptable," EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström expressed on
Twitter. "We will not hesitate to launch an infringement procedure to make
sure EU standards and obligations are fully respected."
The video, first broadcast on a state-run TV channel Monday,
shows men lined up in a warehouse space. One by one, they remove their clothes
before being hosed down. According to BBC News, an unnamed Syrian refugee
claims to have secretly filmed the treatment of migrants at the Lampedusa
holding center. The spray-down treatment is apparently a preventative measure
against scabies.
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2 comments:
This is just plain wrong and I hope someone will show this to the leaders of those Nations where the people migrated from as a wake up call to do something for their own people to discourage migration.
Well....
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