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Italian newspaper: Hell in the Gjadr camp, 45 attempts at self-harm and protests

2025-06-18 20:14:56Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Italian newspaper: Hell in the Gjadr camp, 45 attempts at self-harm and protests

An article published by Italian newspaper Domani has shed light on an alarming reality at the repatriation centre in Gjadër, Albania – a facility built by the Italian agreement to house rejected migrants.

According to the report, at least 45 episodes of self-harm, protests and suicide attempts have been recorded since the beginning of its operation. A shocking figure that casts heavy shadows on the humanity of this migration policy.

The migrants detained in this center, which according to unofficial estimates are about 80 people a month, live in such conditions of isolation that they have lost the sense of time – their first question to visitors is always "What day is it?" and "What time is it?". In the absence of any contact with the outside world – without mobile phones, without watches, with televisions not working – the detainees experience a profound disconnect from reality. Moreover, the use of psychotropic drugs has become a means to calm or sleep their emotional state, extinguishing any sense of control over their personal life.

What Domani describes is a sterile, clean, yet cold and inhumane facility – a modern prison where suffering is not screamed out loud, but dissolved silently. This center, unlike Italian prisons which face overcrowding and open protests, offers a silent and controlled reality, where the lack of freedom is not only physical, but also mental.

According to the Italian prestige, the most serious remains the total lack of transparency. Official data do not exist, neither for the public nor for the Italian parliamentarians who seek to visit these structures. MEPs who have attempted to exercise their right to control have faced long waits, deliberate delays and clear obstacles.

The center in Gjadër is located about an hour away from Tirana, in a secluded area between the mountains and the Drin River, a place specially designed to stay out of the eyes of the media and public opinion. Today, this structure is increasingly symbolizing not the solution to the migration crisis, but its moral failure.

This shocking report raises the alarm not only for Albania as a host country of this center, but above all for Italy and the European Union, which through such agreements are shifting the burden of humanity to the periphery, while essentially creating spaces where human dignity is silently annihilated.


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