Salinagrande: serious problems still persist despite an improvement in living conditions, police checks to "catch" irregular migrants increase

Conditions are still critical for many of the Tunisians in Trapani. After sustained pressure, the Salina CARA (Hosting Centre for Asylum Seekers) gave authorisation for the asylum seekers who were living outside the Centre to enter. Since we started the monitoring project in February, we have met around 30 asylum seekers of different nationalities, who live in the countryside near the Centre. They were sleeping in abandoned buildings, getting their drinking water from public drinking fountains and eating whatever those inside the Centre were able to give them. Now all of them have been accepted into the CARA, even those who had been thrown out because they had had periods of absence in order to look for work.