Illegal Immigration: Lawsuits to investigate in the missing youth in Italy and France
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Member of lawyers’ network for the defense of human rights, lawyer Zarguine Koussaila, revealed on the efforts that he described as serious, by the attorney of the network to deposit international lawsuits in France, Italy and Tunisia, askng for the opening of investigations into the circumstances of the disappearance of a large number of Algerian illegal immigrants, following the clandestine emigration using the boats of death, toward the island of Sardinia since 2007.
Professor Zerguine Koussaila, a member in charge of the file of illegal immigrants who are missing in the network, criticized the abuse of the state and its legal and human rights bodies with this file, confirming that there are no accurate statistics on the number of illegal immigrants, who died in flights that led them towards the unknown, starting from the eastern and western shores of the country, denying the decline of the phenomenon as is promoted by some parties, along the lines of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights, because the body used that in view of the number of illegal immigrants who are followed by justice, and not on the basis of purely scientific field studies with the families of the missing illegal immigrants.
The spokesman told Echorouk that the phenomenon did not decline at all.
“The network is seeking to know the fate of 62 missing illegal immigrants, whose families deposited their official communications about their disappearance, and provided lawyers with all the information about the date of leaving the Algerian shores from the Annaba (eastern Algeria), as this group left on board of six boats in the the period between February 2007 and October 2008. Their families confirm that their news cut off at sea, or after reaching the Tunisian and Italian territories”.
In a field step, the network began the legal procedures from Tunisia, where its members met with a Tunisian lawyer and human rights activist, Radia Nasraoui, on last December, as it was agreed to hold a meeting in the next few days, that would determine the exact steps for filing complaints and requests to open an investigation in Tunisia, Italy and France, in collaboration with the Italian and French lawyers, especially since these two European countries provided a legal environment that allows the investigation in cases of enforced disappearance of persons.
The network confirms the need to pressurize the Tunisian government, to intervene in order to know the fate of 39 young men at least, who have disappeared since the date of October 8, 2008, after they entered the Tunisian territorial waters, and the last thing which related them with Algeria was a phone call during their arrest by the Tunisian Coast Guards, as efforts of some parents who moved repeatedly to Tunisia, for collecting information about the group that departed from the beach of Sidi Salem, including youth from Annaba and Algiers and two young men, one Moroccan and another Tunisian.
A lawyer from Djendouba reached an information about them in several Tunisian prisons, but he stops searching after he was threatened, according to their families.
Other objectives that were undertaken by a lawyer in the Tunisian capital, discovered the whereabouts of some of the young people who said they were ” languishing in the prisons of the Interior Ministry”, as other information said that three Tunisians were on board of the two boats and not just one, and the evidence is that the Tunisian security summoned their parents with a document that is carrying the case number.”
