Algerians barred from entering toilet in Rome Airport
The Rome Airport. Photo: copyright
Dozens of Algerians travelers are subject, since nearly a month in Rome Airport “Fiumicino”, to inhuman and discriminatory treatment without other nationalities, where they are crammed into a private room at the airport for interrogation and detention, and keeping them under tight control, until the date of their journey towards Istanbul or returning to the capital.
According to testimonies of Algerian travelers who have been subjected to this degrading treatment, these incidents are related especially to Algeria-Istanbul flight via Rome on board of “Alitalia” airlines, where more than a hundred people are collected in a tight room, as soon as they stepped off the plane and verification of Algerian nationality, women with men and children have one toilet, and this for more than 5 hours, including preventing many of them from entering the toilets, waiting for the flight whether to return to Istanbul or the capital.
Travelers told Echorouk that many Algerians suffered from fainting amid an altercation with police officers and children screaming in a scene which is not familiar to travelers, confirming that Algerians were treated with discrimination and peerless contempt as if they were terrorists.
A passenger from Jijel, eastern Algeria, told Echorouk, that the case is related to Algerians who use this airport as a gateway for illegal immigrants to reach Europe, taking advantage of the night to stop inside it. Although this, we do not accept that the Italian police attached its failure to imposing control on Algerians”.
Algerian authorities, especially the diplomatic services should intervene and put an end to these repeated insults”.
Italian procedures came following a parliamentary interrogation for the former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, which is the Forza Italia party, that was presented by an MP Maurizio Gasparri, about the failure of the Italian police to control the same airport.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 500 Algerians escape from electronic and physical control at Rome Airport, and was used as an outlet for illegal immigration.
MP on Europe except France, America and Oceania, Noureddine Plumdah, in connection with “Sunrise” that this treatment is unacceptable, and will be notified of the Algerian diplomatic interests of the Rome Embassy and Consulate in order to intervene.