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DIWANFILM presents

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Milan Central Railway Station

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Since one year

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I’ve been expecting this day

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So it’s arrived now

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We thank God

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for all the things he do

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After spending one year

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I’m going to the commission, for them to hear me

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I’m a little bit worried

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because I can’t go back to my country

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We are not going there with our own power

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We’re going there for them to help

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Me and other people

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I’m just going there

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to beg them

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so that they can give me the paper

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so that I can stay

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to find my future in Italy

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It's still hard for me to believe

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that this happened...

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but I was there and I saw everything

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IL RIFUGIO-The Shelter-

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Montecampione - Italian Alps

1800 m. Above sea level

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-All these shootings in Libya,

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never happened

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-Yes, it's true

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-Black people used to go to Libya

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there was a lot of work, a lot of money

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-You could save money and send it to your family

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-But who is right?

Gaddafi supporters or the rebels?

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-Gaddafi is a dictatorbut even the rebels aren’t any better...

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-Wait! It's not like that...

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-Freedom is not good for Libyans

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-This is true...

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-Libyans are rich

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They only think about money and sex

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-This kind of freedom

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is the end for Libyans!

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I am Moustapha, Moustapha Conta. From Gambia.

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I came in Libya in 2006.

I was in Libya for 5 years

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I am an electrician

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I had a workshop there

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Before the war I was buying some tools

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I wanted to enlarge it

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to make it a big workshop

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but unfortunately the war fell down there so…

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I had to run out for my life!

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My name is Edobor Amwamoussa

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In Nigeria I’m a prophet,

I’m a sevant of God

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I walk with God

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God give me the gift of prophecy

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Father let your will be done,

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in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

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I stayed in that place called Soukut in Misurata

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Could you believe, one night soldiers came

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Gaddafi soldiers, they know that so many blacks stay there

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They arrested us, they say we should join soldiers

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My name is Prince, I come from Nigeria

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My occupation is football

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This is my medal

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when I played in Libya, in 2009

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My first award in Libya

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You know when the war came in Libya

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We are said we must hide

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we can't come outside

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Because when we come out

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It will be a problem for us

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because the people was telling us that Gaddafi is using mercenaries

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to fight them

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So we are black and we were in trouble

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So that’s why we can’t move anyhow

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What I know is that somebody just helped me

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to hang over to someone

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Someone pulled me in a boat, I didn’t pay

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If people were paying money I don’t know

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I didn’t experience that, I don’t know

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They all arrived on the shores of Lampedusa from Libya

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Carlo Cominelli

Kpax NGO

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They are part of the Libyan contingent

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They were temporarily transferred to the refugee camp of Manduria

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and then to Montecampione

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My name is Giuseppe Fortunato

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I am the manager of the Hotel LE BAITE in Montecampione

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which is a touristic structure in all respects

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It’s divided between vacation ownership, residence and a hotel

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We are close to the skiing slopes

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1800 meters above sea level

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In the whole structure

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we can easily accomodate six, seven hundred people

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The structure is completely unsuited

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to the reception of asylum seekers or refugees

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In this case they're asylum seekers

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For many reasons...

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First of all because it is isolated

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It's 1800 metres above sea level

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there are 21 km of winding roads

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It was self-evident that it would’ve been impossible

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to provide proper assistance in this structure

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I started visiting these refugees

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at the end of the June,

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when I was asked by the local health service

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to give my availability

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to come here

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and to monitor the health of these guys.

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The most common illnesses are those caused by the drop in temperature

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We had 3 or 4 cases of pneumonia who have now recovered

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some acute bronchitises...

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-Try coughing

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-Again...

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-How often does he have a fever?

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-he says a lot... in the evening and during the day as well

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These guys come from Sub-Saharan Africa, 40 degrees Celsius

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and they were sent here at the top of a mountain in Montecampione

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at a time, expecially between July and August,

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when the average temperature was about 10 degrees celsius

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Let's hope that winter

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will come as late as possible for these guys

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I don't know if they will move them

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or if they'll stay here

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I don't know

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The reason

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for choosing this residence

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there were no tenders or public offerings

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It's evident that this is a money making scheme

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which is ruled with a strategy which is becoming increasingly common

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when it comes to emergencies

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What happens...

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what happens is that institutions decide not to decide

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but given that the problem exists

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and nobody wants to solve it

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what's the solution?

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To delegate to the private sector

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At present, we have 111 guests

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from 13 different countries

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Nigeria, Cameroon,

Senegal, Ivory Coast...

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We provide them with internet stations

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the possibility of using the phone during the day...

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of course, always under our supervision

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also to keep them calm

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and to avoid quarrels and tensions

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As far as the use of internetand the phone is concerned

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we organize shifts

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they follow these shifts

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giving priority to those who haven’t made any calls yet

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People who will come this afternoon,

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if they have already called in the morning,

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they will be asked to give prority to the others

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This is not the way,

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we can’t use only one office phone

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115 people and only one particular phone?!

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Imagine… for a day!

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I come here every week

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I can call my family for 5 minutes

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Those 5 minutes cannot solve my problems

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So my life is like that: no telephone calls, no internet

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You don’t have anywhere to go, you’re staying in only one place…

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They’ve never given us a 5 euro card to even call our family

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We hear that in another camp they give maybe 5 or 10 or 15 euros

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Here there’s nothing like that

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To our eyes this may seem like an irrelevant problem

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but it actually turns out to be a major issue for them

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because with this pocket money

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they can buy tobacco...

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Smokers can buy cigarettes

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they don't need to scrounge around...

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They can buy telephone cards

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So they can call their families without having to rely on us

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5 euro is enough to buy a telephone card

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with 2 lots of pocket money you can get one

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which gives you 40 minutes of calling time abroad

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So, it’s an easy way to keep in touch with one’s family.

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Today I found 1 euro

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People sit down here...

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Yesterday I found 7 euros

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The overall subsidy for a refugee is 46 euros

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per person, per day...

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For each day of stay a refugee brings 46 euros to his host

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Assuming an average of one hundred people hosted

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for 3 months...

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the overall amount is about 500.000 euro

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This is indeed a big business,

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for a hotel which has no turnover

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...15 people wounded

in the clashes in Lampedusa

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some Tunisians were attacked

by the island's inhabitants

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when they tried

to put on fire a gas station

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with some gas cylinders that

they brought there...

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Uhh, see Lampedusa?

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The Tunisians, the Tunisians…

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A man cannot sleep and wake up,

sleep and wake up…

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You’re going to be a lazy guy,

do you know what I mean…

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Even the Bible says:

the hand that doesn’t work, should not eat

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Here now...

I’m thinking about myself

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I’m thinking about back home

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I’m thinking about my people,

I’m thinking about my future

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You know, I’m going very crazy

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I don’t like it here,

I’m very very tired!

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I’m the only man in my family

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How can I be here for three months?!

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Without nothing…

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Eating, sleeping… I don’t like it!

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The season is over,

there's no more grass

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Staying here in winter?

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If they don't engage them

in some activities

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It will be hard...

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I don't know how

they’ll be able to manage...

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We are tired here,

we are tired!

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We can’t move around!

Why?

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We can’t do anything:

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you sleep, you wake up, you see the cows…

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You are lucky to have

some place to sleep and some food to eat

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Me, I have to pay

for my food and where I sleep.

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You don’t pay nothing!

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-No, no:

did we come here because of food?

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We did not come here because of food!

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Who sent them?

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Who let them come here?

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Had it been three or four of them

it wouldn’t have mattered

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but such an invasion

has created problems

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most of all

at a psychological level…

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Even the people that come from town,

when they come,

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they say it’s not a good place to stay

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Here it’s not good,

everybody knows here it’s not good!

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We are tired here

and we want to get out of this place

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We are not interested in this place

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We don’t want to break anything

or make problems

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We don’t need that:

we want to do it our own way!

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We acknowledge your protest

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and we recognize your reasons

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A delegate from each group

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will be received today

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by the highest authority

of this municipality

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in Brescia

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This is the institution which

has the power to decide

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whether to transfer you

to another place

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Milan Central Railway Station

One year later

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A year has passed

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since they reached

the shores of Lampedusa

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Now they're waiting

for the verdict to come

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they will find out whether

they're allowed to stay in Italy

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or if they’re refused

by the commission

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And they will therefore

either be repatriated

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or have the possibility of

appealing against the decision

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The country of origin isn’t always

a point in favour of the applicant

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because there are

some informal indications,

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which despite not being valid

are always taken into consideration,

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according to which

some countries are not regarded

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as a land from which

one needs to seek asylum

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Nigeria, for instance..

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Optimistically,

I can assume that 35% of them

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will obtain some form

of humanitarian protection

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Straight away

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To this one might add,

in case of appeal,

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another 4 or 5% that will get the documents

following a tribunal hearing

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Anyway, for those whose claim

will be rejected even after the appeal

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the problem remains.

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Looking at the statistics

of this emergency

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we can assume that more than

tens of thousands of people

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should be repatriated voluntarily

or taken back to their contries of origin

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in line with an exit plan

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which Italy isn’t able

to follow through and implement

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So, what will become of them?

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If they don’t find any solutions,

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like an issuance of a humanitarian permit

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these people will stay here and wander around

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without effectively having a legal status

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and then they will be

pushed underground by the system

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Undoubtedly these people will be completely lost

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not understanding what they’ve been through

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And that's it.

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70 asylum seekers out of 115

got a 3 year humanitarian protection

or refugee status

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55 asylum seekers were refused protection

and became illegal immigrants