The Guardian | 08.02.2018
In an excerpt from her new book, Hsiao-Hung Pai talks to Adedayo, who has been living in the Cara di Mineo camp for more than a year
The camp is run by bad people. They work with the police and the mafia,” says Adedayo. Adedayo, a 29-year-old Nigerian man, has been living in the Cara di Mineo camp in Sicily for more than a year.
The notorious camp, which houses 4,000 asylum seekers, has become a lawless place, which is believed to have been infiltrated by Italy’s various mafia organisations. Conditions are tough inside and, as a result, some people have run away. But Adedayo says he would never do that: he believes in following procedures and does not want to fall out of the system.