CHAPTER 1, the camp on the Manduria-Oria National Road:
On the national road Manduria-Oria, in March 2011, rises in a few days a tent city of two million euros, built without any tender or consultation with neighboring city councils to respond to the emergency due to the landing of thousands of Tunisian migrants first and sub-Saharans then.
The funds come from the European Union, the management costs of the camp are very high. The companies involved, Connecting People and Nuvola, reported the same camp for the emergency of L’Aquila, ready to receive 2880 people. An amount that will never be reached.
No one who is inside or outside of the camp has the right to receive informations. Journalists and charitable organizations do not have access to it.
Procedures to obtain a residence permit are unknown, they change from day to day. Initially Tunisians must demonstrate that they have 30 euros to receive a residence permit for humanitarian reasons and be transferred elsewhere. Once the closing date of the refugee camp is established, this condition is no longer necessary. All are transferred to unknown destinations, or simply other shelters nearby railway stations. What nobody knows is that residence permits will not be recognized by the European Union. France and Denmark close their borders, withdrawing temporarily, the Schengen Treaty.