http://www.globalpost.com/article/6708386/2015/12/19/eritrean-who-survived-boat-crossing-italy-dies-hospital-escape-bid
Eritrean who survived boat crossing to Italy dies in hospital 'escape' bid
An Eritrean man who survived a perilous journey across the Mediterranean by boat to Italy has died after falling from a hospital window in a night-time escape bid, Italian media reported Saturday.
The 24-year-old, who was rescued from his rickety vessel by the Italian coastguard earlier in December and brought to the island of Sardinia, was being treated for scabies in the infectious diseases ward of a hospital in Cagliari.
In the early hours of Saturday he knotted his sheets together and tried climb down the side of the building from his third-floor room, before falling and hitting his head, dying on the spot.
It was not clear why the man was determined to leave undetected. Hospital staff insisted his room was not locked and his treatment was almost complete, after which he would have been free to go, the reports said.
Eritrean migrants picked up from boats and brought to Italy face relocation along with Syrians and Iraqis to other European countries as part of a controversial programme to share the refugee burden, which has proven unpopular with people hoping to join family members elsewhere.
Nearly 85 percent of new arrivals come from the world's top 10 refugee-producing countries, according to the UN's refugee agency. More than 3,620 people have died trying to make the journey by sea from north Africa in 2015.
http://www.lastampa.it/2015/12/19/italia/cronache/cerca-di-fuggire-calandosi-dalla-finestra-dellospedale-migrante-morto-a-cagliari-73MyPxnxKcbnRjVjB7lLnJ/pagina.html
Tries to escape by climbing down hospital window, migrant died in Cagliari
The victim is a 23 year old Eritrean. Witness: "He was afraid to go to jail"
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He feared that the hospital was the antechamber of jail. And he did not want it to stop right in this room its course towards a future away from the war. He was only 23 years old, was named Teklemerian, and to continue the journey tonight attempted a daring escape. He organized a rope with the sheets and tried to descend from the third floor of the hospital Holy Trinity Cagliari. But the plan did not work: it is true that no one noticed him trying to "escape" but the sheets did not stand. Perhaps the makeshift rope was not enough to reach the ground and so the young man decided to groped a jump. In the darkness and emptiness. The height, apparently, was too much and the impact has been devastating.
Teklemarian had landed a few days ago from a small boat on the coast of southern Sardinia. He was born in Eritrea in 1992 and the first to face the sea, so he told me, had gone to Algeria. The island had been received by police and volunteers. The doctors had ascertained immediately that among the migrants there were some cases of scabies and that the twenty-three had been hospitalized in the department "infectious" hospital of Cagliari.
The treatment would last a few days but he was obsessed with the idea of not being able to chase the dream. "He was afraid that the bloccassero, believed that after the hospital would end up in prison - told the other migrants who arrived with him in Sardinia - He wanted to arrive in Northern Europe and did not expect to land on an island." "He had fled to seek a better future and instead found a terrible death - says another guy - He told of his major projects, wanted to reach relatives in another country in Europe, perhaps in Germany."
The police in the company of Cagliari investigating this tragedy, but the story seems to be all too clear: Teklemarian could not wait to arrive at their destination and to leave behind the tragedy of war and poverty was willing to do anything. Facing the sea in winter, and even to make a dangerous leap into the void.
http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cronache/eritreo-affetto-scabbia-si-d-fuga-calandosi-finestra-muore-1206162.html
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