Italy: Tunisian migrants clash with police on tiny southern island

Italy: Tunisian migrants clash with police on tiny southern island

Via AKI:
A group of around 20 Tunisian migrants on Monday hurled stones at Italian police who intervened when a brawl broke out between them and other migrants at the southern island of Lampedusa's overcrowded detention centre.

Police removed about 10 migrants from the detention centre after the scuffles between the Tunisians, who claimed migrants who arrived on Lampedusa overnight had tried to "queue-jump" and appropriate from migrants held at the centre for several weeks tickets allocated for transfers to detention centres on the Italian mainland.

A policeman was reportedly injured in one eye after a migrant allegedly attacked him with pepper spray.

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