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EU Threatens Italy With Legal Action After Cellphone Video Captures Treatment of Asylum Seekers

They had no idea?

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The European Commission threatened Italy with legal action on Wednesday in reaction to images of young Africans being sprayed for scabies in a detention centre in Lampedusa.

Captured on a mobile phone, the images of the naked migrants remind Europe of what some call a shameful situation for migrants on its periphery.