Repatriated – and gagged with packing tape

by | Apr 18, 2012


That’s a snap from Alitalia’s 0920 Rome to Tunis flight yesterday morning, taken by Francesco Sperandeo and posted on his Facebook page.  He comments,

Two Tunisian nationals deported from Italy and treated in an inhumane way. Brown wrapping tape around her face and mouth, and plastic ties to secure the wrists.This is European civilization and democracy. But the worst part was that everything happened to the total indifference of the passengers; my request to treat the two passengers humanely led to me being labelled “arrogant” and told to return to my seat because it was a normal police operation. Normal?? I still managed to steal a photo! Go ahead and spin that or prosecute me!

Author

  • Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

    View all posts


More from Global Dashboard

Let’s make climate a culture war!

Let’s make climate a culture war!

by | Sep 29, 2021

If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad?  No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...