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47% 187 and 50% 188 . Repatriation expenditures remain rather unclear, speculations elaborated
on public figures suggest that a single deportation costs between 4,000 and 10,000 euros 189 .
2. COSTS
Providing a final cost for the whole of the administrative detention process is a challenging task,
as a comprehensive figure should include hard-to-calculate outflows. On a national level, Corte
dei Conti – the most important judicial body on public budget control – estimates that in 2010
the final budget for Italian CIEs was 200 million euros 190 . Expenditure on the construction of
CIEs was 140 million euros, running costs accounted for 30 million euros and another 34
million euros was spent on repatriation procedures. The same Court maintains that in 2004
surveillance activity – implemented by 800 law enforcement officers – cost 26.3 million euros, a
figure that has probably been raised throughout recent years 191 .
In recent years, Turin’s CIE underwent a major maintenance program in order to increase its
capacity to its present size. The total expenditure of some 14 million euros suggests that this
cost 78,000 euros per place inside CIE 192 . All available sources claim that organisations running
Italian CIEs are granted an average daily funding of 40-45 euros per “guest” 193 . As a result, each
detainee costs the State some 1,200-1,300 euros per month, or 7,200-8,100 euros per semester.
Turin’s CIE is run by the Red Cross, who had a total budget of 3,646,538 euros to manage it in
2011 194 . Furthermore, salaries must be paid for roughly another eighty guards operating inside
Turin’s CIE on a daily basis, ranging from Polizia di Stato, Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza to the
Esercito Italiano 195 .
187 Manconi and Anastasia (eds), Lampedusa non è un’isola, June 2012, 307.
188 Medici per i Diritti Umani, L’iniquo ingranaggio dei CIE, 3.
189 Maurizio Bongioanni, “Quanto ci costano i Cie (e chi li gestisce)”, Radio Radicale (online), 7 July 2012
; figures
presented by Andrea Stuppini at the European Alternatives Conference, “Quali alternative ai CIE? Prospettive e
Proposte”, Bologna, 10 May 2012.
190 Fulvio Paleologo, “Cie – Dopo il decreto sui rimpatri ancora diritti violati”, Progetto Melting Pot Europa
(online), 9 August 2011 ; figures presented by Andrea Stuppini
at the European Alternatives Conference, “Quali alternative ai CIE? Prospettive e Proposte”, Bologna, 10 May
2012.
191 Manconi and Anastasia (eds), Lampedusa non è un’isola, 66.
192 Figures provided by members of Turin’s Prefettura; Maurizio Bongioanni, “Quanto ci costano i Cie (e chi li
gestisce)”; figures presented by Andrea Stuppini at the European Alternatives Conference, “Quali alternative ai
CIE? Prospettive e Proposte”, Bologna, 10 May 2012.
193 Id.; Raffaella Cosentino, “Cinque biglietti per un rimpatrio. Quanto costa un’espulsione?”, Progetto Melting
Pot Europa (online), 2 May 2012 ; Grazia Naletto, “Immigrati,
il costo della cattiveria”, Sbilanciamoci (online), 23 November 2010
; Maurizio Bongioanni, “CIE: grandi gruppi e concorrenza al
ribasso”, Radio Radicale (online), 9 July 2012 ; Antonello Mangano, “Gli
intrappolati. La spending review dimenticata”, Radio Radicale (online), 6 July 2012
.
194 Medici per i Diritti Umani, Le Sbarre Più Alte, 7.
195 Figures provided by members of Turin’s Prefettura.
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