ITALY. Florence, 20th June 2011. Adbi Aziz tried to escape from Somalia for the first time in June 2007. Arrested in Ethiopia and sent back to his country he waited a month near the border. After obtaining a passport and a Visa to cross Ethiopia he went to Khartoum to cross the desert and go to Libya. Caught by Libyan border patrols he was forced to call his family to send cash for his liberation. Due to the payment of 400 US dollars he was liberated in February 2008 after three months of jail. In April 2008 he finally took a ship to Italy. After a three days trip he arrived in the isle of Lampedusa from where the Italian authorities sent him to the city of Bari. After six months in this city he obtained the refugee status and he moved to Rome and then to Florence where he lived for five months in a occupied building. Tired of this situation he went to Holland. After the police stopped him the Dutch authorities tried to send him to Italy, but Italian authorities refused him so he remained in Holland until the police went to his house and ordered him to return in Italy. In September 2010 he escaped to Belgium where he lived in a house for refugees till 25th October, when police took is fingerprints and order him to return to Italy where he arrived in January 2011. For two day he slept in Rome central station. Caught by police he was released after 24 hours. Returned in Florence he wasn't accepted in a reception centre for refugees so he found shelter, with other Somali and Eritrean refugees, inside a former office building.
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