A court has ordered migrants detained in Albania to return to Italy.
The Court of Rome on Friday ruled that the detention in Albania of twelve migrants transferred to that country as part of Italy’s pact with Tirana, which outsources its migration management to the Balkan country, is not valid, and ordered their departure from the center ordered. . internment and return to Italy.
The ruling was made by the Immigration Division of the Court of First Instance in Rome, which determined that the dozens of migrants still held in the Gjader detention center must be transferred to Italy and cannot remain on Albanian territory.
“The two countries from which the immigrants come, Bangladesh and Egypt, are not safe,” the panel of judges in Rome has ruled, in line with a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which system was questioned. of transferring people from Italy to Albania, a country that is not part of the EU.
“The arrests are not sanctioned by the adoption of the principles binding on national judges and the government itself, as proclaimed in the recent CJEU ruling,” the judges added.
According to local media, the migrants will be sent back to Italian territory tomorrow.
The Italian government of Giorgia Meloni this week sent a first group of 16 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea to Albania, launching the agreement for the outsourcing to Albanian territory of the procedures for receiving, applying for asylum and possible deportation the migrants they are trying to reach. Italian territory.
After arriving in Albania, it was already determined that four of the sixteen migrants should be sent to Italy due to their vulnerable profiles, as it was determined that minors, people from countries considered unsafe or with other vulnerabilities could not be brought to Albania.
Source: EITB
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