The judges of the Court of Rome have not validated the detention of the 12 people held since Wednesday in the migrant identification and repatriation centers built by Italy in Albania. It is a first major judicial setback for the Giorgia Meloni Government’s plan, just as the European Union is opening up to replicating this model.
The decision was influenced by a recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union according to which a country can be considered safe only if it really is safe in its entirety. And the concept of a “safe country” is central to the implementation of the operational protocol signed by Italy and Albania a year ago for the opening of the centers: only adult men from countries considered safe should be sent there. The ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU on October 4 eliminated de facto Several countries are on the list, including Tunisia, Egypt and Bangladesh. The 16 migrants initially taken to Albania – four of them were returned a few hours later to Italy, two for being minors and two for being considered “vulnerable” – were Egyptians and Bangladeshis.
“The refusal to validate detentions in Albanian facilities equated to Italian border or transit areas is due to the impossibility of recognizing the States of origin of the detained persons as ‘safe countries’, with the consequence of the inapplicability of the procedure of the border and, as provided for in the protocol, the transfer out of Albanian territory of the migrants, who therefore have the right to be taken to Italy,” Luciana Sangiovanni, the president of section 13 of the Court of Rome, explained in a statement. has decided not to endorse the detention of this first group of migrants in the centers.
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