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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9029

17 September 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/illegal immigration
MEPs decsribe visit to Lampedusa Centre as tragic "masquerade"

Brussels, 16/09/2005 (Agence Europe) -Members of the delegation made up of fourteen members of the European Parliament, who visited the holding centre for refugees in Lampedusa, Sicily, on 14 and 15 September, said they were astonished to have found only 11 people in this camp, which was home to 600 refugees not long ago, despite its maximum capacity of 200. In a press release, French Socialist Martine Roure stated: "you can imagine the surprise of the MEPs (...) to note that they...

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