The deceit of the state asylum system in Enna

During the visits which have been made since March 2015 to the extraordinary reception centres in the province of Enna, we always had difficulties to understand how the contracts for institutions through a public tender in the reception system for asylum seekers in the province were awarded.

Visiting the CAS of Pergusa

Last Saturday we went to one of the three CAS* of Pergusa, a district of the city of Enna, distancing about five kilometers from the centre. We visited the CAS managed by the cooperative ‘Ippocrate’, in a huge facility built in 2004 for becoming a rehabilitation clinic, which, though, in all these years has never been run as such. Hence, since a few months back, it has been converted into a centre for extraordinary reception.

Through a concession agreement of the prefecture, the facility currently hosts 19 asylum seekers and it will participate in the call for new places regarding the concession for a total of 75 hosting places next September.