A Flower for Moussa Balde, the Fourth Anniversary of His Death and the Reopening of the CPR in Corso Brunelleschi in Turin

TURIN – On May 23, 2021, a 22-year-old boy, Moussa Balde, took his own life in the hospital of the CPR on Corso Brunelleschi in Turin. After this episode that led to the indictment of two people, a plea bargain and four dismissed charges (the trial began in February 2025), nothing seems to have changed inside the detention and repatriation center. Following protests and fires by the occupants, the CPR was closed in March 2023. It reopened after …