A Rome court declared the detention of migrants in Albania illegal on Friday transferred this week from Italy and ordered their returnunder the argument that the countries of origin of these people, Bangladesh and Egypt, cannot be considered safe. This is the first hard blow for Giorgia Meloni’s government on migrationwhen one of their attempts to intern migrants in so-called “shame centers” failed.
This week, the Italian government chartered a military ship with 16 asylum seekers so that they had to wait in Albania the resolution of their respective cases. Shortly after the transfer, The return of two possible minors and many others declared vulnerable upon arrival has already been ordered.
The Court of Rome has issued a judgment in which it does not consider valid the detention of 12 migrants transferred to Albaniaas part of the agreement between Italy and Tirana which outsources the management of his migration to this Balkan country, and ordered his departure from the detention center and his return to Italy.
The decision was made by the Immigration section of the Rome Court of First Instance, which opened the dozen remaining migrants. interned in Gjader detention center They must be transferred to Italy and cannot remain on Albanian soil.
They cannot be detained
The two catalogings invalidated his possible imprisonment, under an agreement which also established that only migrants from safe countries could be transferred to Albanian soil. The immigration section of the Court of Rome understood that this requirement did not exist for those still remaining in Albania, according to the RAI channel.
“The two countries where the migrants come from, Bangladesh and Egypt, are not safe,” says the judgment, which refers to an earlier ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union. In this sense, the court determined that the migrants – at least four, according to the judgment – do not they can be detained and that it is only in Italy that the freedom to which they are entitled is guaranteed.
“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 They will be returned this Saturday on Italian territory.
The Italian government of Giorgia 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, asylum request and possible expulsion procedures. migrants wanted by Italy. territory.
This first group of migrants – all from Egypt and Bangladesh – was transported to Albania by the Italian Navy and followed the appropriate procedures in the two reception and detention centers that Italy set up on Albanian territory . and falls under its jurisdiction. After arriving in Albania, it was determined that four of the 16 migrants had to be sent to Italy due to their vulnerable profile, as it was determined that minors, people from countries considered dangerous or with other vulnerabilities could not be taken to Albania.
