Italy has returned to send migrants, on this occasion 49 people, to the detention and expulsion centers built in Albania, after the two previous attempts failed after judicial sentences.
“After the evaluation operations of the conditions of the intercepted persons, 49 foreign citizens have embarked aboard the Cassiopea ship for their transfer to the centers of Albania, where the reception, detention and evaluation procedures of individual cases will begin,” has Informed this Sunday the Ministry of Interior.
Interior has reported that “53 immigrants spontaneously presented their passports to avoid the transfer: a particular circumstance, since it allows to faster more quickly the verification procedures of individual positions, even regardless of the detention, increasing the possibilities of proceeding with the repatriations of those who have no right to remain in the European Union (EU) “.
The patrol ‘Cassiopea’ of the Italian Navy was already in some days in waters near the Italian island of Lampedusa prepared to receive migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean.
The 49 migrants will be transferred to the center of the port of Gjader and after their identification to that of Shenjin, according to the agreement between the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and his Albanian counterpart, Edi Rama. It is expected that the third group of immigrants, the largest since these operations began, will arrive at Schengjin on Tuesday.
Migrants belong “to the list of safe countries prepared by the government”, including Bangladés and Egypt and for the first time of Gambia and Ivory Coast, the Italian media reported.
Italy returns to this transfer after the last ruling of the Supreme Court that indicated that the Government corresponds to which countries are safe and that the judge cannot systematically invalidate the detention of migrants, but that it can motivate the specific case by which this person It is not sure in that country.
The Italian justice had not validated the arrest of migrants in the only two shipments to Albania, of 17 and 8 migrants, made in October already of November, respectively, when alleging precisely that neither Egypt nor Bangladés were safely safe and there were claimed the intervention of the European Court.
Since then the centers have been empty, monitored and managed by an increasingly reduced staff, which has caused strong criticism of the government for expenses.
This time, however, it will be the judges of the Court of Appeal of Rome who will decide on whether to validate the arrests and not the administrative courts as it was previously, after Meloni’s government approved a law with this change.
In addition, the judges will have to rule without even knowing the final interpretation of the European Court of Justice on the concept of safe countries, as it is expected to be pronounced on February 25. In the last week, the landings on the Italian coast have registered a clear rebound, with 1,264 arrivals in six days.
