The words of the boy who took his life at Ponte Galeria tonight, leaving a message written on the wall. "If one day I should die, I would like my body to be taken to Africa, my mother would be glad. The Italian military does not understand anything apart from money. I miss Africa a lot and also my mother, she should not cry for me. Peace to my soul, may I rest in peace(..)". The sentence was marked with a cigarette butt.
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What happened
A young man, between 21 and 22 years old, originally from Ghana, hanged himself in the Ponte Galeria repatriation detention center in Rome. The suicide, by hanging, was confirmed by several center-left parliamentarians who are in contact with the associations that operate in the migrant reception circuit and the control of detention facilities. The police reported that they had intervened on the spot and had considered, from a first analysis, that it could be a suicide around 2 pm today. The details of the story are still being defined. However, from the details made public by the parliamentarians, it emerged that 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.
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