Cpr lager managed by Salerno companies: migrants as civil party

Two migrants were admitted as civil parties, for any damages, and others announced that they will appear at the hearing, before the preliminary hearing judge Milan Mattia Fiorentinipaid by Alessandro Forlenza e Recommends Carusode facto and de jure administrators of the Martinina srland of the same company based in Salerno. The charges are of fraud in public supplies and auction rigging in the investigation into the repatriation detention center in via Corelli in Milan where the migrants, according to the investigations of the prosecutors Paolo Storari e Giovanna Cavalleri and the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Gdf, would have been locked up in “inhuman” and “hellish” conditions.

As civil parties (among lawyers Eugenio Losco, Maria Pia Cecere, Carla Quinto e Enrico Belloli), the associations Naga and BeFree, which have long been dealing with CPR and denouncing the conditions in which migrants are held, were also admitted. Forlenza, with the lawyer and former prosecutor Antonio Ingroiaasked for a plea deal of one year and 8 months and Martinina asked for a plea deal with 15 thousand euro fine pecuniary with a ban on contracting with the public administration for 20 months. At the moment, Caruso, mother of Forlenza, has not chosen alternative rites. On 13 December 2023, the prosecutors obtained the seizure of the Martinina company branch that managed the CPR.

The investigations had revealed a situation for which it was necessary to appoint a judicial administrator: “food full of worms”absence of cultural and linguistic mediators, the constant use of “psychotropic drugs”dilapidated beds and bathrooms, just to name a few facts. Furthermore, Forlenza is liable for other charges, as “as de facto administrator of Engel Italia srl ​​and Martinina” he would have presented “counterfeit documentation” by participating in other “tenders” on the management of reception centers for foreign asylum seekers, between Milan, Salerno, Toasts e Taranto. The preliminary hearing was adjourned to December 18, also because the handover between the judicial administrator (a report will be filed in the coming weeks) and the new company that won the tender for the management of the center is awaited.