The Italian ship Bookused by Giorgia Meloni’s government to transfer immigrants to its controversial detention centers in Albania, sails with eight migrants to the Balkan country after the legal setback which forced him to revoke the first transfer.
The ship left yesterday evening for Albania and pYou could arrive at your destination this Thursday or Friday, depending on weather conditions, according to Efe.
The far-right Meloni government uses this ship to welcome certain immigrants on the high seas. -healthy adult men arriving from countries considered safe– and take them first to the center of Shengjin then to Gjader, in accordance with the agreement signed with Albania.
The first time Meloni implemented this strategy was October 16 but without success: the ship carried only 16 immigrants from Egypt and Bangladesh and four of them had to be returned immediately to Italy to be minors or “vulnerable”.
Shortly after, the other 12 also had to be expelled from Albania and taken to Italy because a court in Rome determined that neither Egypt nor Bangladesh could be considered refugees. “safe countries”, relying on a judgment of the Court of the European Union.
This marked the beginning of a harsh confrontation between the executive and judicial branches, to which the government responded by legally protecting the list of “safe countries” and maintaining Egypt and Bangladesh.
Given the outcry caused when it was first carried out on October 16, this new operation is taking place with the greatest discretion.
Meloni therefore insists on the realization of this project which, when it was launched, aroused great interest among its community partners, but which is threatened by the repeated decisions of certain Italian courts.
This Monday, the court of Catania (south) – just like that of Rome – canceled the arrest of an Egyptian by affirming that Egypt is not a safe country and thus goes against government law, while the court in Bologna (north) turned to European justice to assess the legitimacy of this protocol. ‘immigration.
