Legal blow to the government of Giorgia Meloni. The Court of Rome declared this Friday illegal the rexclusion of the 12 immigrants transferred to Albania this week from Italy and ordered their return, arguing that the people’s countries of origin, Bangladesh and Egypt, cannot be considered safe, according to what the Corriere della Sera.
The judgment was issued by the immigration section of the Rome Court of First Instance, which established that the dozen migrants still detained in the Gjader detention center, the result of the agreement between Rome and Tirana, must be transferred to Italy and cannot remain on Albanian soil.
Meloni’s controversial plan to deport migrants to Albania, which Ursula Von der Leyen wants to copy, has already started on the wrong foot, since four of the first 16 migrants who had to return – 10 Bangladeshis and six Egyptians – were transferred to Albania. centers built in Albania, two for minors and two others for their vulnerable condition.
“The two countries from which the immigrants come, Bangladesh and Egypt, are not safe,” ruled the Rome college of judges, in accordance with a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU ) which called this system into question. transfer of people from Italy to Albania, a country which is not part of the EU.
“The arrests were not validated within the framework of the adoption of the principles binding on national judges and the administration itself, set out by the recent judgment of the CJEU,” added the judges.
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 reception procedures, asylum requests and possible expulsion of migrants seeking to reach Italian territory.
This first group of migrants was transported to Albania by the Italian Navy and followed the appropriate procedures in the two reception and detention centers that Italy installed on Albanian territory and which are under its jurisdiction.
