The dream damaged by a coat that was by no means stolen: the federal government needs to repatriate Hamdi who already has a job in a two Michelin star restaurant

The damaged dream of Hamdi, 21 years outdated, Tunisian, who arrived in Italy when he was nonetheless a minor and who now, with an unreasonable measure, the federal government needs to repatriate for the tried theft of a jacket (courting again years in the past) simply as his integration course of he was very quick.

From the Barilla cooking college to the Potenza CPR

Hamdi handed inside just a few hours from the Barilla Basis cooking college to the Potenza CPR with a repatriation order which might have been carried out within the subsequent few days if his enchantment to the decide, supported by the Baobab Expertise Affiliation of Rome, had not been welcomed. The decide ordered the speedy launch of the younger Tunisian albeit with a decree inviting him to depart Italy in seven days as a result of his residence allow has expired. However the legal professionals have already utilized for worldwide safety.

The internship at Cannavacciuolo

With a profession as a chef already underway, Hamdi would have began working in a starred restaurant in just a few days after having additionally achieved an internship at Cannavacciuolo. The dream of his life was abruptly interrupted by the repatriation order for an tried theft of a jacket dedicated at 18 when, despatched away upon reaching the age of majority by the neighborhood that welcomed him, he remained on the road within the winter within the chilly.

“The banality of evil”

Telling his story is Andrea Costa of Baobab Expertise, at present in Potenza to help Hamdi. “We’re getting used to dwelling, to paraphrase Hannah Arendt, with ‘the banality of evil'”, she says. “They take away Hamdi’s safety as a result of when he turned 18 he was thrown out onto the road from the middle for minors the place we had welcomed him after discovering him, at 16 years outdated, throughout Covid, in the course of a road.”

The theft that did not occur

“He was chilly and tried to steal a jacket from Zara (a theft that did not occur),” continues Costa. “That is why they lock him up in a CPR and need to repatriate him: within the meantime he has studied, he does theatre, he was chosen by the Barilla Basis for a brilliant cooking course in Parma and subsequent week he would have began working with a starred chef in Rimini, he took a course with Cannavacciuolo, he was a part of certainly one of our tasks and he’s very energetic in serving to migrants and Italians in problem. He’s the prototype of the built-in boy who, ranging from poverty, is realizing his life dream,” concludes Costa. “A disgrace. Fortunately the decide agreed with us and freed him however we should not decrease our guard as a result of sadly we threat seeing many extra tales like this”