Italy condemned by the European Court for “illegal detention of migrants” in the Taranto hotspot
There European Court for the Human rights condemned theItaly For illegal detention of migrants in the’ hotspot Of Taranto, including unaccompanied foreign minors. The accusation is that of having committed inhuman treatments And degrading in the reception measures, for not having appointed a guardian or having provided these minors with any type of information on the possibility of challenging this condition in court.
The sentence, as reported by Repubblica, arrived on November 23 and refers to the situation of 2017; therefore during the Gentiloni government. The newspaper, however, underlines how the situation is mostly unchanged: in Apulian region there are more than 400 unaccompanied minors. Most of them are hosted in inadequate facilities, such as, for example, the 185 children who are in the same hotspot.
L’Asgi – Association for Legal Studies on Immigration – which has always been committed to the topic, calls for “theimmediate placement in appropriate facilities of these children and young people and the supervision of the implementation of previous sentences which, as demonstrated by the situation inTaranto hotspotthey did not change the illegitimate practices.”
“Currently, explains Asgi, they are almost two hundred foreign minors de facto detainedin the absence of any legal basis and any jurisdictional scrutiny within the Taranto hotspot, some of which as early as last August”.
Lawyer Dario Belluccio, who followed the case with his colleague Marina Angiuli, declares himself satisfied with the sentence because it establishes the absence of a legal reason to detain minors within these structures.
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