(European Conservative) The Cesare Beccaria Youth Detention Centre is located in the outskirts of Milan. A small institution that can hold up to 70 people, but is usually overcrowded, has been the focus of several articles in the Italian press recently after it was revealed that a staggering proportion — estimated to being seven out of ten, or even nine out of ten, according to the Catholic chaplain of the centre — of the 80 detainees are unaccompanied foreign minors. What is even more worrisome is that these youngsters (who become offenders at an ever younger age) are practically all Muslims, coming primarily from Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, who are barely educated and socialised, and who have grown into a “predatory,” nomadic lifestyle.
According to Il Giornale, those held at the centre (all male) were arrested mainly for robberies, drug dealing and violent offences. As the chaplain, Father Claudio Burgio, put it, there has been a clear change in the “migration projects” of foreign youth from Muslim countries arriving in Italy.
