Italian activist arrested in Guinea Bissau: the story of Valentina Cirelli | EUROtoday

The evening between 18 and 19, Cirelli spent it held in Brega, along with a lady initially from Nhinquin. The subsequent day each are transferred to a cell within the second Bissau police station.

At 7.58 pm, Cirelli sends the final message earlier than the battery of his cellphone discharges. The subsequent day, on Easter Sunday, the lawyer and a pal go to the lady for 10 minutes, bringing her garments, meals and private hygiene merchandise, and the police permit her to name her father briefly, earlier than confiscating her cellular phone once more.

The Italian honorary console manages to go to them for about an hour. So the following day, Cirelli was performed on the Ministry of the Interior, with out first having been capable of meet the legal professionals, after which postponed to the identical cell because the Bissau Police Station. Still yesterday the police didn’t permit legal professionals to contact her due to “higher orders”, whereas immediately they tried to ship a request from Habeas Corpus, with the intention to ahead it to the decide for felony investigations, however the brokers refused to obtain it.

The put up from the mayor of Lerici, Leonardo Paoletti

This is the put up by the mayor of Lerici, printed by Città della Spezia, Leonardo Paoletti. “Of Italian father and Guinean mother, Lerricina, a social project of kindergarten and elementary school began in Guinea Bissau started by Miradas al Mundo, flanked by a sustainable tourism project rooted in the local culture that supports the same school -writes the mayor Paoletti -. After some peaceful events Against the activity of a Chinese mining company Some isolated vandalism acts have occurred but without the direct involvement of Valentina.

“Nonetheless, final Friday Valentina was arrested by the Ingoré authorities, on the border with Senegal, for the straightforward reality of being an energetic determine and a frontrunner of the neighborhood. Together together with her, the village clothes and different authoritative individuals who haven’t accepted the mining exploitation mission have been arrested”.