«Hamid's death in prison, latest victim of government propaganda»
The Association for Legal Studies on Immigration – ASGI takes a stand in reference to the suicide in prison of Hamid Badoui and denounces the umpteenth tragedy of a foreign citizen in a penitentiary, defining him in a press release released today as «a victim of a repressive system that first saw him detained in a repatriation center because he did not have a residence permit, then deported to Albania as part of the Italian government's propaganda operation , subsequently brought back to Italy as a result of the judicial decision not to validate the detention and finally imprisoned for a crime presumably committed in an unclear context».
"Hamid Badoui ended his life during his last detention, and it is not difficult to imagine the irrepressible weariness of seeing himself once again confined and without the possibility of escape", Asgi underlines in the note. "Because the story implies the impossibility for foreigners who already live in Italy to obtain a residence permit , but it also implies the inhumanity of an increasingly ferocious system that sees the containment of migrants' bodies as a propaganda tool to be conveyed to voters. Bodies held in CPRs or in prisons, there is little difference; bodies deported outside the national territory, as a show of strength even if it is concretely useless; bodies that increasingly become an instrument for the exercise of an unequal power that does not allow for inversions. The final goal is the implementation of a society based not on equality of rights, not on equal opportunities for all those who live in a given community, not on a rational management of questions of social transformation (and immigration is such), but the creation of a society divided into increasingly subordinate classes , which form a social ladder in which the lowest rung is today destined for migrants but which easily extends to other socially unacceptable categories».
"This represents the dramatic story of Hamid Badoui, the latest victim, for now, of this dehumanization tenaciously pursued by the government", concludes the note from the Association. "This is why we are outraged and alarmed by the words of the Minister of the Interior who defined as "legitimate contributions" those expressed by far-right groups on May 17 in Gallarate, at the Remigration Summit . They are not legitimate at all because they are in clear opposition to the principles of non-discrimination and equality expressed by the Italian Constitution , aiming to create societies divided above all into racial classes. Asgi calls for a clear change, which puts human rights, dignity and equality of all people at the center and reverses the current dangerous anti-democratic drift".
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