Italian Helicopters Hunt Down Algerian Illegal Immigrants in Sardinia

A YouTube video showed the Italian gendarmes using helicopters to track and chase Algerian illegal immigrants who were roaming the coast of Sardinia after after they arrived there on board of a boat.

The video, which included the word “cell 11 of the Italian gendarmerie”, showed a number of Algerian illegal immigrants who were divided into two groups on a forest road, when they were roving freely a helicopter tracked them from a low altitude, amid the indifference of the group of illegal immigrants, although the helicopters was flying over their heads.

According to local media in the island, the illegal immigrants who arrived on the night of the second of Ramadan, were 20 people and local residents in the area of ​​Carbonia reported them after they hide the boats in a bay, and 12 of them were arrested.

The same sources explained that a helicopter of gendarmerie from cell 11 was used to track down eight other illegal immigrants in a rural area, as they appeared in the video and were followed by a helicopter before they were arrested by a patrol of the gendarmerie.

In another section, the Italian island authorities allocated an abandoned old prison to receive the Algerian illegal immigrants in Sant’ Antioco, which is the “Iglesias” prison, according to the newspaper Uniponi Sarda, which indicated that the prison’s capacity is 100 people but needs rehabilitation.