He missed his mother and wanted to return to Africa: the writing in the cell of the 22-year-old who took his own life in Rome
A 22 years old he took his own life while he was in the repatriation detention center in Ponte Galeria, in Rome. The boy, originally from Guinea, left a writing to explain what pushed him to carry out the sad and desperate gesture.
The tragedy happened yesterday, Sunday 4 February. After the alarm raised by his companions, rescuers rushed to the scene and tried to do everything possible to save him. The 22-year-old was tied a rope around his neck and then he hung himself on the external grate. The other guests of the facility cut the rope and immediately notified the operators. The latter took the boy to the infirmary, where he underwent all the first aid procedures, while waiting for the health workers.
Unfortunately no one could do anything to save him. He had only been transferred to the centre, from Trapani, last January 27th. A heartbreaking writing on the wall of the 22-year-old's cell, explains the motivation of his desperate gesture: “I miss my mother, I want to go back to Africa”.
Controversy after the death of the 22-year-old
What happened sparked a real controversy, regarding the conditions of centers such as the one in Rome, where those arriving in Italy would be kept in “inhuman” conditions. To comment on what happened to Fanpage.it, the guarantor of the rights of people deprived of liberty in the municipality of Rome. The words of Valentina Calderone:
We managed to speak with a couple of the companions of the 22-year-old who took his life, who are in the same department as him and with some operators and we will report to the judicial authorities. Places like Ponte Galeria are totally inhumane. There was no need to wait for the death of a boy to say that these places should be closed. Places of suffering, where people are forced to stay indefinitely, without purpose and prospects, they do not understand why they are there. This boy was ill, on the wall of his cell he had written in French I want to go back to Africa, I miss my mother.
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