Special Flight

SAMTAL: Asylgruppen i Lund gästar oss för samtal. Kvällens topic är:
“The dehumanizing and repressive practices of European migration politics and deportations.”

DANS: På besök denna afton har vi två Gambianska herrar som ska dansa Mbalax (eller Mbalakh) för oss före filmen. Mbalax är en mycket populär musikgenre och dansform som dansas flitigt i både Gambia och Senegal. Mycket spännande!

MAT: Ät din middag på Doc Lounge. Vi serverar alltid en vegetarisk soppa  med bröd  för 69 kr. I baren säljs det också vin, öl, kaffe mm.

Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven’t set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.