22-year-old Ghanaian Found Dead in Migrant Center in Rome, Sparks Protests

A 22-year-old from Ghana was found dead this morning at the migrant center of Ponte Galeria, in Cesare Chiodi street in Rome. The suicide, by hanging, was confirmed by several center-left parliamentarians who are in contact with associations operating in the migrant reception circuit and in the control of detention facilities. The young man had been held since October at the Cpr in Rome, where he had arrived following a transfer from a center in Trapani. Before dying, the boy left a portrait of himself on the wall accompanied by a text in which he stated that he could no longer resist and expressed the hope that his body would be taken to Africa where his soul would rest in peace. The incident sparked riots in the Repatriation Detention Center. Some guests tried to break down an iron door, threw stones at the staff and tried to set a car on fire. The police had to launch tear gas to quell the protest. During the riots, some guests threw stones at the staff and tried to set a car on fire. Now the situation has returned to normal. To restore the situation to normal, the police launched some tear gas during the riots that broke out in the Cpr of Ponte Galeria in Rome where a 22-year-old boy, a guest of the facility, committed suicide. Some guests knocked down two grates, trying to break down an iron door and set a car on fire. At that point, a stone was thrown at the staff with the guests about to leave the facility and so some tear gas was launched. Two carabinieri and a soldier of the Army were injured in the riots at the Cpr of Ponte Galeria in Rome. The carabinieri were treated on the spot while the army soldier was taken to hospital in yellow code. According to what is learned, about sixty guests of the facility took part in the protests that broke out after the suicide of a 22-year-old boy from Guinea.