The number of CPRs and the total number of people detained

Florence, September 24, 2025 – Giovanni Donzelli, national director of the Brothers of Italy organization, says that Tuscany doesn't need a CPR , a Repatriation Detention Center, but two: "One for the illegal immigrants involved in all the incidents, and one specifically for those involved in drug dealing, because there is a drug and drug dealing emergency problem in Tuscany too, even with the left looking the other way."

The issue, as readers and listeners of "Pecore Elettriche" may know, is of considerable concern in these parts. Therefore, it must be taken very seriously. The government's goal, it seems, is to hold people not in pre-trial detention, but as illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. Trouble will arise when the government fails to expel the drug dealers. The result: the problem will remain confined to the CPR, but no one will notice except those who live nearby.

Moreover, as Actionaid's latest report explains, "only 10 percent of those subject to expulsion orders were repatriated from CPRs in 2023; that is, out of 28,347 people, 'only' 2,987 were repatriated from Italian CPRs. The total number of repatriations is 4,267 (including all procedures carried out outside CPRs)." The risk, in short, is that these two CPRs, not one, will only serve to increase the number of detainees.