The European Commission has called, on Tuesday, the Italian authorities to tighten the procedures of taking fingerprints of refugees coming across the sea, demanding Italy to use force against refugees who refuse to leave their fingerprints.
The Commission said in a statement issued yesterday: “Italy is required to take a more solid legal framework allows the use of force to take the refugees’ fingerprints, and impose high adjudications to those refugees who resist leaving their fingerprints”.
On his part, Italian Interior Minister “Angelino Alfano” commented on the statement, stressing that “the legal system in the country already allows the use of force such cases”. At that time many members of parliament expressed their concern about European demand.
It is noteworthy that, according to the statistics of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR; about (142,000) refugees had arrived across Italy since the beginning of 2015, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.