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The alleged Nice assassin came to France from Tunis via Lampedusa. But how did the 21-year-old get there? His trail is lost in Bari, Italy.
By Jörg Seisselberg, ARD-Studio Rome
“The assassin who came from Italy”, headlines the newspaper “La Repubblica”. And ask: How did the alleged murderer from Lampedusa get to Nice? On September 20, confirmed by Italy’s Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese, the 21-year-old landed as a migrant on the Mediterranean island. “The Tunisian arrived in Lampedusa as part of an independent landing.”
On a little boat to Lampedusa
This means that the alleged attacker is not one of the migrants who were rescued from distress by the coast guard or a non-governmental organization in the Mediterranean. Brahim A. arrived in Lampedusa with about 20 compatriots in a small boat that had departed in the Tunisian port city of Sfax. In total, more than 11,000 Tunisians have already arrived in Italy via the so-called central Mediterranean route this year.
A blank slate upon arrival in Italy
Brahim A. is registered in Lampedusa: photos are taken, his fingerprints are taken, his name, date of birth and country of origin are recorded. In this case, the Italian authorities check three things: First, if the migrant has already been in Italy and has been expelled from the country. Second, if you are registered with the authorities of your country of origin. And thirdly, if it appears in the European databases of security authorities. All three reviews were negative.
Brahim A., according to Interior Minister Lamorgese, was a blank slate when he arrived in Italy last month: “He was not denounced by the Tunisian authorities, nor was there information from intelligence circles.”
From Lampedusa to the quarantine ship
Italians often press charges of illegal entry into Italian territory against anyone who enters the country without permission. In September, they do the same in the case of Brahim A. The 21-year-old Tunisian goes to the recording access point in Lampedusa. And four days later, along with 800 other migrants, to the crown quarantine on the “Rhapsody” ferry. The Italian government rented the boat because the reception structure in Lampedusa was crowded at the time.
Disembark in Bari
The “Rhapsody” sails for two weeks along the Italian coast to Apulia, where Brahim A. disembarks in Bari on 8 October. There he received a negative test certificate for Covid-19 from the local Red Cross the next day – and the authorities asked him to leave: “On October 9, he received an expulsion order with instructions from the police chief to leave the territory. national. “says Lamorgese.
Disappeared from the radar of the authorities
The deportation order stipulates that the migrants in question must leave Italy within seven days. As a general rule, this is not checked. The reality a thousand times greater in Italy is: the moment migrants hold the paper with the deportation order in hand, they disappear from the authorities’ radar, they do not know what to do with them because cooperation with their country of origin is long and it does. there is a lack of accommodation in Italy.
Dive abroad
Many migrants who are forced to leave the country then go underground, then belong to the 700,000 people currently living in Italy without being officially registered, according to the migration report. Or, as in the case of Brahim A., they travel unrecognized to other European countries. Italian media report that it costs 50 euros to smuggle across the border into France.
In view of the Brahim A. case, Italy’s right-wing opposition calls for the resignation of the Interior Minister. The center-left coalition points out that there was a similar case at the time of Berlusconi’s right-wing government: In 2011, another migrant from Tunisia arrived in Lampedusa: Anis Amri, the later killer at the Berlin Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz.
