Judicial blow to the Government of Giorgia Meloni. This Friday, the Court of Rome declared illegal the detention in Albania of the 12 immigrants transferred to Albania this week from Italy and ordered their return, arguing that the countries of origin of these people, Bangladesh and Egypt, cannot considered safe, as advanced by the Corriere della Sera.
The ruling was issued by the Immigration section of the court of first instance in Rome, which established that the dozen migrants who are still detained in the Gjader detention center, the result of the pact between Rome and Tirana, have to be transferred to Italy and cannot remain on Albanian soil.
The controversial plan to deport migrants to Albania by Meloni’s far-right, which Ursula Von der Leyen wants to copy, has already started on the wrong foot, with four of the first 16 migrants having to return – 10 Bangladeshis and six Egyptians – transferred to centers built in Albania, two for being minors and two others for their vulnerable condition.
“The two countries from which the immigrants come, Bangladesh and Egypt, are not safe,” ruled the panel of judges in Rome, in line with a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which questioned this system. transfer of people from Italy to Albania, a country that is not part of the EU.
“The arrests were not validated in adoption of the binding principles for national judges and the Administration itself, enunciated by the recent ruling of the CJEU,” the judges added.
According to local media, the migrants will be returned to Italian territory this Saturday.
The Italian Government of Meloni sent this week to Albania a first group of 16 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, launching the agreement for the outsourcing to Albanian territory of the procedures for receiving, requesting asylum and possible expulsion of the migrants seeking reach Italian territory.
This first group of migrants was transported to Albania by the Italian Navy and went through the relevant procedures in the two reception and retention centers that Italy set up in Albanian territory and is under its jurisdiction.
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