Your stay at the centre

The reception centre is severely overcrowded. In 2013 Lampedusa Mayor Giusi Nicolini said the centre was like a "concentration camp" after footage emerged of detainees being stripped en masse and hosed down with disinfectant.

Your fingerprints are taken and placed in a Europe-wide database. It is often impossible for migrants registered in Italy to be able to continue their journey, reach their destination and obtain protection in the countries in question due to the application or interpretation of EU legislation. Desperate asylum seekers are known to burn their fingers, so the fingerprint record of their entry into Italy is destroyed

Treatment at Lampedusa: Video shows how migrants are forced to strip and are hosed down

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