A month and a half ago, two Moroccan students, enrolled at the University of Perugia, have been expelled from our country on charges of terrorism. The conservative press, close to the positions of the government, took the opportunity to launch yet another crusade against the Arab-Muslim immigration, losing themselves in fantasy and slanderous allegations against Ahmed and Mohamed Hilal Errahmouni, the two young protagonists of the story . In both the expulsion orders were signed by Minister Maroni himself, heavy charges are contested, but the evidence gathered by Digos after a year of investigations and the secret of wiretaps has not yet seen anyone. Even the magistrate of Perugia has decided to endorse the measure without even opening the file in the hands of police. According to some written by journalists, the two students were "planting a terrorist cell within the University of Perugia." Ahmed and Mohamed actually never spoke to each other, they did not know, had no connection. In short, two strangers, with the only reason that both belong to the same immigrant communities, and attend the same place of worship, the mosque in Via dei Priori. A fault that our efficient political police, our government and some skillful representatives of the "fourth estate" are considered, these days, too serious.
Below is an article written for the International Observatory of rights (oxine) by Aziz El Yaakoubi and Jacopo Granci.
accused of terrorism, Ahmed Errahmouni was expelled from Italy where he had come a few months ago to study at university. In official documents the charges attributed to the young Moroccan immigrant are not supported by any evidence, but the Italian press has also talked of a plot against Pope Benedict XVI. Back up a story that is unbelievable, product of the new Italian law on security and terrorism.
the balcony of his parents' house, Errahmouni Ahmed, 22, observe the colorful and bustling streets of his native city, Salé, home of the famous writer and former prisoner of Abdellah Taia Tazmamart Ahmed Marzouk, and yet the city of one of the leading representatives of the Moroccan Salafism, Hassan Kettani. For over a decade now, the former capital of Bourg, the only pagan dynasty that has reigned over a part of Moroccan territory, even after the Muslim conquest, is currently identified as an Islamic city. But Ahmed does not seem too preoccupato dalla sospetta nomea assunta dalla città. A tormentarlo è piuttosto il peso delle accuse notificategli delle autorità italiane… E’ il 29 aprile 2010, più o meno le quattro di mattina, quando il giovane studente riceve una visita inattesa: uomini con il volto nascosto dal passamontagna, armati di tutto punto, invadono la sua camera nel campus universitario della città di Perugia. “Ero sveglio, seduto al computer per ripassare alcuni esercizi di matematica, quando i cinque uomini sono entrati senza alcun riguardo”, ricorda Ahmed, sotto lo sguardo inquieto della madre. Dopo i primi secondi di panico riconosce l’identità dei suoi “ospiti”, grazie alla scritta sul bulletproof vest and used harsh methods in action. These are some agents of Digos (General Investigations Division and Special Operations), the political police, which oversees our territory. "They told me to wait in a corner and then began to search everywhere," said the young man. The police then seize his computer equipment, the phone and all documents in the room (including class notes and textbooks). A voice hidden behind the black hood advised him to take with him some clothes, since it could "pass the following night at the police." Ahmed does not understand what is happening, despite what follows agents without resistance.
Persona non grata
sent to the Commissioner, the surprise is great. Ahmed has a manager to a document and asked him to countersign. "I started reading the text and I had the impression that talking about Osama Bin Laden, given the seriousness of the charges," says the student. The document is nothing more than a notification of the expulsion imposed on Errahmouni Ahmed, arrived in Italy only seven months ago to join the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Perugia. The notification, signed by Roberto Maroni himself March 31, 2010, is accompanied by a translation arabo classico.
Il testo richiama nei primi paragrafi la legislazione nazionale (di cui l’ultimo apporto è la legge anti-terrorismo del 2005, ricordata come “legge Pisanu”) che autorizza il Prefetto e il Ministro dell’Interno ad espellere dal suolo italiano ogni persona ritenuta “una minaccia per la sicurezza dello Stato”. Stando alle imputazioni riportate nel decreto, “il cittadino marocchino Errahmouni Ahmed risulta inserito in un complesso e consolidato circuito relazionale con estremisti islamici contigui alle reti transnazionali di sostegno al terrorismo di matrice religiosa”. Nessuna prova concreta viene citata nel documento, che, a parte l’accusa categorica di affiliazione al terrorismo international, remains vague and incomplete, as evidenced by the account given in paragraph 4: "The stranger that focuses on the Internet, whose use is an expert in order to provide real-time information they need to optimize the effectiveness and of their communications. " After the passage in the police, Ahmed is led by a dozen policemen in front of the magistrate, who confirmed the expulsion order immediately, without examining the merits of the charges.
About eleven o'clock in the morning, the young student is escorted to the airport of Rome Fiumicino, where he awaits a flight of Royal Air Maroc. "Before boarding I noticed the presence of Mohamed Hilal - another Moroccan expelled for the same reasons - that I had crossed a few times at the mosque in Perugia, "says Ahmed. The two are taken up in the cockpit of the plane, accompanied by a dozen policemen to Mohammed V airport in Casablanca.
arrival in Morocco, Ahmed and Mohammed are loaded into a van by the police forces of the Kingdom and immediately transferred to the police station in Casablanca. "When I was locked up in a small cell, in isolation, it was almost midnight. The first two days have left me handcuffed and blindfolded. " For four consecutive days, the two students are subjected to a long series of interrogations. "Most of the questions were about my friends, my favorite readings and religious imams who usually listened to. The Italian police, however, has never found it necessary to question, "the twenty-two witnesses.
"I lost all my money and my son's graduation"
Mohamed, Ahmed's older brother, became aware of the expulsion through the internet. Upon hearing the news, he decides to leave in search of his brother. "I made the rounds of all the police stations of Salé, Rabat and Casablanca, but with no results," says the thirty. Desperate, he decides to contact the AMDH (Associazione marocchina per i diritti umani), Amnesty Intarnational e il Consiglio consultivo per i diritti dell’uomo. “Al commissariato di Rabat un poliziotto mi ha consigliato di interrompere le ricerche, spiegandomi che se mio fratello era innocente, sarebbe stato lui ad entrare ben presto in contatto con la famiglia”. Liberato dopo una settimana di detenzione, senza alcuna accusa a suo carico, Ahmed raggiunge i suoi e racconta la triste vicenda.
Suo padre, un ex-militare che ha combattuto in Sahara Occidentale contro il Polisario, dice di aver ipotecato la casa per poter inviare Ahmed in Italia a studiare. “Ora ho perso tutto, i soldi e il diploma di mio figlio”, si lamenta il vecchio, mostrando chiaramente the effects of chemotherapy on the body withered. "Here in the neighborhood many people have ended up in prison after the attacks in Casablanca. Our only crime is to have neighbors who are suspected of terrorism, if they are in prison. Apart from that, I do not know what we can blame my son, "says its part of Ahmed's mother.
The Italian law on security and terrorism authorizing any person ejected to appeal to the Regional Administrative Court of jurisdiction within sixty days of the implementation of the decree. The International Observatory of the Rights (oxine) stationed in Naples el'AMDH are working hard to ensure that Ahmed could return to Italy to resume gli studi. Nell’attesa, la stampa italiana vicina alle posizioni del governo continua a fare la voce grossa, denunciando la pericolosità dei soggetti e difendendo il provvedimento del ministro. Panorama , settimanale di proprietà del Primo ministro Berlusconi, sostiene senza mezze misure che “i due marocchini espulsi stavano preparando un attentato contro il Papa, al momento della sua visita a Torino”. Ma il documento che decreta l’espulsione di Ahmed Errahmouni non menziona in nessun passo questo genere di accuse.
