A resounding judicial blow that has fail the first test of their deportation model in less than 72 hours of its implementation. A plan that already started badly, since Of the 16 immigrants transferred, four had to return to Italian soil just one day after their deportation, two of them for being minors.
The already known as ‘Meloni model’ of creating deportation centers outside the European Union (EU) has seduced a large part of the community club. At least a dozen European partners have shown their support to this idea and even the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen has shown herself in favor of studying this option as a solution to the migration crisis. A European support for his plan to which Meloni has appealed in his first reaction after the judicial setback.
The Italian Prime Minister has also been very critical with the judicial authorities classifying “detrimental” the decision of the Court of Rome and harshly attacking those responsible for this sentence. “I believe that the decision of the judges of Rome is a prejudiced decision, This is demonstrated by the fact that some of them criticized the agreement with Albania even before it came into force,” he denounced.
“It is very difficult to work and try to give answers to this nation when the opposition is also a part of those institutions that should help you to respond to the problems,” Meloni reproached in a press conference in Beirut, where he was visiting official to address the escalation of tension in the Middle East.
“I hope you can tell me how this is resolvedhow public order is managed, who will pay for the billions of hostages that we will have to contribute, I hope that solutions will be found, because I am the one who must find the solutions and I will also find a solution to this problem“said the far-right president, visibly upset.
Urgent government meeting
For this reason, Meloni called a meeting of his Council of Ministers for next monday “to approve regulations that serve to overcome the obstacle” now imposed by Justice, in what is perceived as a growing struggle between executive and judicial power in Italy.
“I think that It is not up to the judiciary to say which countries are safe, but to the governments, so the Government will have to clarify it better,” Meloni stressed, accusing the Rome Court of exceed their powers.
Precisely, is this notion of “security” the question for which the Court of Rome ordered to bring back to Italian territory the dozen migrants held in the Gjader retention center.
This judicial instance considered that this first group of deported immigrants cannot be considered as coming from safe countriesand therefore, they should not have been transferred to Albania. A decision that is based on a previous ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which also questions security in Bangladesh and Egypt, countries of origin of those transferred.
Meloni has not been the only one to react. Other members of the coalition Executive such as the vice president and leader of the far-right League, Matteo Salvini, reacted to the failure accusing also the judges for being “pro-immigrant” and “playing left-wing politics.”
For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosialready announced this Friday that the Government will appeal to the judicial decision and intends to go ahead with his plan outsourcing of migration management in Albania.
“We will not only move forward with judicial resources, but we will also move forward with these initiatives because From 2026, what Italy is doing in Albania will become European law“Piantedosi proclaimed.
The head of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajanifrom the conservative Forza Italia, stressed that The Executive will continue defending its plan because “it is fair to do it in harmony” with Von der Leyen.
“We are used to respecting the decisions of the judiciary, but I would like the decisions of the Executive and the legislature to be respected because a democracy is based on the division of powers,” said Tajani.
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