For the third time in a short time, the Italian government has not succeeded in carrying out the intended migration plans. This week, the court again put a line through the elaboration of the so-called Albania deal.
Although the migrants had already arrived in Albania, it appears that the state of affairs does not legally last. That is why the Italian coastguard had to return to Albania on Saturday to the group of 43 migrants from From Bangladesh, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Gambiato be picked up.
The current discussion revolves around whether these are safe countries. After all, only in specific cases, asylum seekers may be held for a short period, provided that they come from safe countries. Their detention must be ratified by a court, and a court in Rome did not want to do that for the third time.
The migrants in question belonged to the group of 49 asylum seekers who arrived on Albanian territory on Tuesday. The same day, five migrants returned to Italy because they were a minor or vulnerable.
The Italian government previously concluded an agreement with Albania, in which the shelter and the asylum procedure are outsourced to a ‘third country’, outside the European Union, to be handled there by the Italian authorities, the flagship of the Italian radical-right had to be Premier Giorgia Meloni.
The aim of the migration deal is to transfer non-vulnerable migrants with in principle little chance of protection to a third, non-EU member state such as Albania, where their asylum procedure is treated accelerated. The intention is to repatriate them again.
But fixing migrants outside the European Union is only possible with the permission of the judge, according to an earlier judgment on this deal. Without legal soil for the accelerated and fixing of the migrants, the Italian coast guard must get them back. The court thus whistled the Italian government again and now submits the case to the European Court of Justice. On 25 February, he will judge which countries can be specifically considered safe.
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The Italian government regards the statements about the Albania deal as a political opposition. She speaks of a ‘political use of the judiciary’. This throws extra oil on the fire of the already considerably soured relationship between Italian politics and the magistrate.
Within the right -wing majority, the displeasure is also very high about the criminal investigation that was opened against Prime Minister Meloni and three government members last week, due to the rapid repatriation of the Libyan war criminal Osama Almasri Njeem. The Italian police had arrested the man in Turin on January 19, but barely two days later the Italian government decided to repatriate him to Libya.
The International Criminal Court urgently demands an explanation from Rome about this case, and also in Italy itself the case was given a tail, in the form of a complaint and a criminal investigation that followed. The Italian government regards that step as a revenge measure of Italian ‘left’ magistrates. They would have wanted to avenge for a fault and far -reaching reform of justice.