Following a court ruling, twelve migrants have been sent back to Italy from a reception center in Albania. The men from Egypt and Bangladesh arrived in Bari, southern Italy, on Saturday afternoon. The Meloni government still wants to stick to its plans to outsource asylum procedures.
The migrants had previously been taken from a reception center in Albania to the port of Shëngjin and placed on an Italian coast guard ship.
Judge defended decision
Meanwhile, Luciana Sangiovanni, president of the Court of Rome’s migration section, defended her decision that 12 people in an Italian migrant facility in Albania should be transferred to Italy because their countries of origin, Egypt and Bangladesh, are not safe. She acted in accordance with EU law, the judge said in an interview with the daily ‘La Stampa’ on Saturday.
Accordingly, “to be considered safe countries, they must be generally and uniformly safe.” “This means that parts of the territory or categories of people cannot be excluded. And that is exactly what we wrote in our ruling,” the judge said.
The government is sticking to the asylum plans
Even after the court ruling in Rome, the Italian government continues to stick to its controversial plan to process migrants in Albania. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has scheduled a cabinet meeting for Monday. The government must further explain what is meant by safe countries of origin. Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi was convinced the verdict could be overturned. If necessary, we will go to the Supreme Court.
Ruling of the Court of Justice on safe countries of origin
The ruling of the six judges in Rome is based on a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) at the beginning of October. This states that an EU country can only define a third country as a safe country of origin in asylum law if the conditions for this are met throughout the territory of the state. The court’s ruling in Rome seriously calls into question the basis of the entire Albania plan, on which the Monioni government plans to spend more than 600 million euros over the next five years.
Italy has set up two reception centers in Albania
Italy has set up two reception centers in Albania where asylum applications will be processed. The first ship carrying migrants reached the port city of Shengjin on Wednesday. The move was based on the first agreement in which an EU country sends migrants to a non-EU country to prevent illegal arrivals.
Source: Krone
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