In Italy now, there isn’t just an emergency for the landings, but also emergency for information. Apart from deporting the Tunisians detained in the centres of identification and deportation in half of Italy, the Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, has in fact decided to expel journalists as well. Thanks to a ministerial circular letter issued on the 1st April, which didn’t create much fuss but in fact bans all the press from entering into the CIEs. We’ve gone back 10 years. When no journalist could enter in the deportation centres, which were then called CPT (Centres of Temporary Permanence), if not accompanied by a parliamentary delegation.
