Demand Italy guarantees a place for the refugees of Piazza Indipendenza

On August 19, the Italian police evicted hundreds of Eritrean, Ethiopian refugees and asylum seekers from a building in Piazza Indipendenza, Rome. Nobody gave them another place to stay, so the only alternative for them was to camp at the square itself.

On August 24, five days later, a group of angry police officers in riot gear, brutally evicted all the people from the square, using violence and even water cannons on women and children. The police attack caused 13 people to be wounded, assisted by doctors of Medici Senza Frontiere (Doctors without Borders Italy).

Piazza Indipendenza is a business area of the city, very close to the main station, Termini. It's a place that Institutions (Government, Region, Mayor, etc..) would like to maintain "clean", whilst still trying to hide the failures outside the center of the city.

These failures are the result of years of bad social integration politics. The only solution the Government has found is the use of the violence! Do the police really need water cannons? Why do they terrorize people who have already escaped from a terrible environment?

We want a better Italy, a county that is able to provide a real pathway for social integration!

Please, sign this petition if you want to tell the Italian Government and the Ministry of the Interior Marco Minniti to apologise and find a decent accommodation for all the squatters evicted in Piazza Indipendenza.