Turin's CIE - International University College of Turin

E. could have launched an appeal against the Commissione’s decision. However, by this stage
time had passed in CIE and E. was so upset and distressed that he said that he wanted to do
anything possible to leave CIE detention and he just saw the appeal as prolonging the
situation. We must remember that E. is an eighteen-year-old who is detained in a foreign
country whilst mourning the loss of his loved ones who recently died in conflict. Since the
decision to appeal was ultimately in E.’s hands, there was nothing else that E.’s lawyer could
do at this stage. At the present moment E. is simply waiting for his repatriation to take place.
Perhaps if E. had received understandable legal advice on asylum when he arrived in Italy or
if E. had had a better experience as a child in the children’s refuge then things might have
been worked out differently. Perhaps if E. had been able to speak to a lawyer with an
interpreter in Switzerland or if he had been able to speak to a lawyer for comprehensive and
interpreted advice and informed representation in Turin before his validation hearing, then
things might have been different.
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