This morning  in Lampedusa,  the most southern island  of Europe,  a revolt erupted in  the “Centre  for identification and  expulsion“, following the hunger strike of 300  detainees from Tunisia. The detention center hosts more than 800 migrants,  mostly from Tunisia. The fire destroyed most of the building and the police had to fight the revolt with extra smoke (teargas), it is yet unknown how many people were injured.

The mayor of the city  Bernardino De Rubeis has released a declaration against the Italian government, quoting  his own words: “Guilty is the Government which transformed this center in a Lager (camp), the migrants are desperate.“

The revolt seems  to have exploded as 107 Tunisian  migrants were to be deported  back to  their country,  proceeding to  a first  transfer in Roma.

source: http://www.repubblica.it/
Another recent news,  to let you understand how we South Italians are seen and feel closer to africa,is this news:

reporting a deliberate  aggression by police in Sicily  to a fisherman and legitimate italian citizen: since his skin is as dark as that of a north african,  he has been  hit *in the  back* by a policeman  in the
middle of the  street, taking him for “a  migrant escaped from the detention center”,  without any other  reason. The episode  is raising various polemics that fit in the rising  climate of fascism and xenophobia  affecting the  Italian peninsula especially  since the last abusive change of government directed by Berlusconi.