pending political asylum that never comes
thousand stories of men who seem to have lost their dignity, are interwoven in the "Afghan village, a little more than a kilometer from the Colosseum and the Campidoglio, all united by one destiny: to be hunted. A particular risk for the approximately 80 refugees in transit Ostiense, who want to continue their journey - have already cost thousands of euro, prey to "vultures" of all species - to reach other European paesei.
risk because no census has been made by the City, for a legitimate choice, but imposed by the Treaty of Dublin in 1990, an international agreement which lays down the principle that, received a refugee in one of the EU countries, if he decides to go to another European nation, it is immediately sent back where it was first surveyed.
For everyone else - about 60 - they choose instead of being recorded, the Councillor for Social Policies of the Capitol, Sveva Belviso guarantees acceptance to CARA (the reception center for asylum seekers) of the Red Cross in Castelnuovo di Porto , north of Rome. "Beyond the availability of the Municipality of Rome - Alberto Barbieri said of Doctors for Human Rights, for years engaged in helping Afghans' - there is a decisive step: the ability to accept a civil, dignified even people only in transit. "
" A condition - added Dr. Barbieri - who must surely be governed by precise rules and spent some time, but accommodation that, as brief and temporary, must be decent and hygienically acceptable.
Residents of the "hole dell'Ostiense" are called Habib, Mohamed, calling Kaihan or Esfandyan. They tell amazing stories of violence from which they fled and which, rather than relive them, prefer indecency, poverty and insecurity they feel here. They are just men, very young, some underage, all Muslims. you see them pray even five times a day, as most of them are Orthodox. For the ritual ablutions before kneeling toward Mecca, make do with her at the fountain near the railway.
Already, the railroad. Less than one hundred meters from the "Hole of the Afghan people" run the tracks of the Ostiense station, where other shacks of cardboard, others are home to ethnic groups other than the slums indecent Pashtuns, concentrated all in the "pit", the place felt more comfortable perhaps by this group hegemon at home, and apparently also in exile. In small "satellite districts" along the railway, there are groups of Azara, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Turkmens.
"I arrived in Italy four days .... do not ask me how I did it ... but tomorrow I go On the first train going towards Ventimiglia and I'm leaving, "says Faharan, 24, returned from an intramuscular injection which has been done to the camper of Physicians for Human Rights.
What's happening in the" hole "of 'Ostiense is a punch in the stomach in the middle of an area in a European capital. Accepted by many who have given tents and blankets, but also just endured for so many others in the neighborhood. Laura Boldrini, spokesperson of the High Commissioner for Refugees UN, said: "It is not the result of political choice by public authorities not to invest more on the first host, which would allow refugees to stand on its own legs, without getting long in a state dependency and uncertainty. Especially without causing degradation of situations like these. "
The Boldrini then recalls the rocky road of the rules that govern the recognition in Italy for political asylum." Bossi-Fini law in 2004 introduced the concept that if a refugee is denied political asylum, he must go immediately, without waiting for the outcome of a review of his request. "
" concept, this was canceled in 2006 by the Prodi government, which reopen the possibility for the applicant to wait in Italy to the second degree. In 2008, finally, with the 'security package', facing strict ranges that, in fact, with few exceptions, do not put them at those fleeing from war, violence, harassment, denial of human rights or natural disaster, simply to advance the claim for asylum. " (La Repubblica, November 8, 2009)
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