Immigrants riot over food at Safi barracks

Some 200 immigrants rioted over food at Safi Barracks detention centre this evening. Sources said that anti-riot units of the Armed Forces of Malta were on the scene as the police Mobile Squad and district officers patrolled the periphery of the...

Some 200 immigrants rioted over food at Safi Barracks detention centre this evening.

Sources said that anti-riot units of the Armed Forces of Malta were on the scene as the police Mobile Squad and district officers patrolled the periphery of the barracks.

The situation eventually calmed down. No one was injured.

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