A-Infos (en) Italy, Anarres Info: TURIN. IN PROCESSION AGAINST CPR, BORDERS, MILITARY IN THE STREETS (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The warm flavor of spring envelops Piazza Castello. The procession 
leaves after an hour of music and speeches. ---- The voices multiply 
along the entire journey. The past and recent history of prisons for 
migrants, the ferocity of the expulsion machine, the lives broken along 
the militarized borders at sea and in the mountains, the story of 
Moussa, who died three years ago in an isolation cell of the CPR in 
Turin, that of Ousmane Sylla hanged in the one in Rome were remembered 
by those who spoke. A banner expressed solidarity with Jamal, a comrade 
caught in the street by the Turin police, and, despite the generous 
attempt to free him by his companions, ended up at the CPR in via 
Corelli in Milan. Described as a criminal to hide the banal fact that 
he, like everyone else, could spend a year and a half in a migrant 
prison because he lacks European documents.
The fight against CPR suffers from the enormous difficulty in 
understanding that one ends up in those prisons for who one is, not for 
what one has done. And it is a conviction without trial and without 
appeal. The sign that the democratic narrative is a fiction reserved for 
those who believe they were born in the right place, that they are safe 
from the violence and arbitrariness of the State. It's a shame that in 
the constant war on the poor, the dividing line between the submerged 
and the saved is a mobile border, into which everyone risks falling. 
Nat* here and nat* elsewhere.
The militarization of the suburbs is a sign of this. A lot of money 
spent to keep so many puppets in uniform on the streets, while the lives 
of those who live in "difficult" neighborhoods become increasingly 
precarious.
The procession, after crossing the center, headed to Porta Palazzo where 
it stopped for a long time. The banner "CPR kill" appeared above.
The one in Turin, burned down by the riots of February 2023, is closed. 
We are fully committed to ensuring that it never reopens.

Below is the flyer we distributed in the square:

Without states or borders, no one is illegal
In the prisons for migrants, the CPR, riots have been going on for months.
The decision to extend administrative detention to 18 months, in fact a 
real prison sentence imposed without trial, was the detonator that 
sparked protests everywhere.
From Gradisca d'Isonzo to Milan, from Macomer to Ponte Galeria, from 
Trapani Milo to Caltanissetta there have been rebellions, escapes and 
very harsh repression.
In the meantime, the concentration camp system is outsourced with two 
CPRs in Albania.

The Turin CPR has been closed for a year. For the first time since 1999, 
when the undocumented were locked up in containers that were freezing in 
the winter and boiling in the summer, the riots that broke out in 
February made a structure doubled in size and built in brick in 2008 
completely unusable. The one in Turin was one of the four administrative 
prisons that had never closed their doors, even when the raging revolts 
brought the network of Centers to almost total paralysis.
The struggles of the winter of 2023 were an important moment in a very 
harsh conflict, which cost many inmates prison, punitive movements, 
beatings and deportation over a period of 25 years.
In Turin the government and the fascists fan the flames of war between 
poor Italians and poor immigrants, to have a free hand to wage war on us 
all.
The soldiers of the "Strade Sicure" operation arrived first in Barriera, 
then in other neighborhoods, six months on military missions abroad, six 
months on the streets of our city. Entire areas have been put under 
siege, with continuous roundups of people without documents or who live 
thanks to an informal economy.
The government at all levels points the finger at the poorest, 
racialized people, with the continuous blackmail of documents, to hide 
the social war it has unleashed against all the poor, Italian and born 
elsewhere, siding alongside the masters large and small.
The ethnically targeted control of the territory aims to repress any 
possible social insurgency in the bud.

The CPRs are an important cog in the expulsion machine, necessary to 
maintain intact the reputation of intransigence towards "illegal 
immigrants" that every government prides itself on.
The lives trapped in the CPR, suspended in the hotspots, balanced 
between stamp papers and daily police abuses start from far away, in 
lands where neocolonialism, the exploitation of resources and wars 
create a desert.
For years, governments have been trying to move the borders further and 
further away, to Libya, Niger, Sudan, making agreements with governments 
and paramilitary militias to do the dirty work, rejecting and 
imprisoning people on the move.
The Mediterranean has become an enormous shroud covering the lives of 
tens of thousands of people who died at sea because no one helped them. 
Those who do so, like NGO ships, are criminalised, fined and blocked.

At the eastern and western borders of the Bel Paese, migrants die on 
Alpine passes or run over by a train in a tunnel, while those who have 
the "right" cards don't even see the border. Borders have become mobile 
boundaries against which exclusion of the poor is measured.
Borders are lines made of nothing on a map: they become real only when 
there are armed troops guarding them, selecting who can pass and who cannot.

The legislation on immigration in our country has outlined a breakdown 
in the liberal order, configuring itself as "administrative law of the 
enemy". By "enemy law" we mean a body of legislation, whereby some human 
groups (foreigners, subversives, outside the norm, madmen, disabled 
people) are persecuted for what they are and not for what they do.
In our country you are illegal by law. Entering "legally" is impossible: 
to have a residence permit you need an employment contract signed in the 
country of origin. How many bosses do you know who hire a worker they've 
never seen sight unseen, in a country thousands of kilometers from Italy?
None of those who arrive have their papers in order. Whoever comes 
across a check gets the dismissal document, if he is fished out he ends 
up in the CPR.
The history of the CPR - once CIE and before that CPT - is a history of 
revolts, escapes, beatings, hunger strikes, people who cut themselves, 
others who sew their mouths shut. The Italian CPRs were destroyed and 
rebuilt over and over again.

The CPRs are, together with the prisons, social dumps in which those who 
have not adapted are locked up, those swallowed up by the streets, the 
rebels, the rejects to be eliminated at the end of a process that begins 
in the countries of origin.
The youngest, the healthiest, those who have family networks capable of 
offering the resources to undertake a journey that can last years leave. 
It's the first selection. Those who survive the journey, the torture and 
rape in the Libyan concentration camps, the beatings on the Balkan 
route, must face clandestine life in Europe.
They all work illegally, without the possibility of renting a house, 
having a doctor, imagining a future. Anyone who, after years, manages to 
have a contract is always under blackmail, because if he doesn't submit 
to the boss and loses his job, he also loses the documents that make him 
"legal".
At every stage of this ferocious game of goose, someone doesn't make it 
and ends up in the gears of the expulsion machine.
Lack of access to citizenship rights ends up resulting in the denial of 
human rights. In reality, "human rights" are only the litmus test that 
makes visible the exclusion of so many of those who live on this planet. 
An exclusion not so much from rights, but from human society itself.
Putting an end to illegal immigration, deaths on the move, prisons for 
migrants means putting an end to states, borders, armies, masters, 
exploitation.
It means putting an end to an intolerable world order.

Turin Anarchist Federation
Antimilitarist Assembly
Corso Palermo 46
Meetings - open to interested parties - every Tuesday at 8pm

https://www.anarresinfo.org/torino-in-corteo-contro-cpr-frontiere-militari-per-le-strade/
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