First Batch of Migrants Sent to Albania Returned to Italy After Court Ruling

Euronews ^ | 19/10/2024

[nickcarraway]

Prime Minister Meloni's flagship policy in doubt after the first batch of migrants sent to Albania are returned to Italy following a court ruling.

The Italian coast guard took 12 migrants back to Italy on Saturday from newly opened asylum processing centres in Albania following a court decision in Rome. The ruling is a key hurdle in the administration’s plan to outsource some of its migrant processing to Albania. The 12 were part of the first batch of 16 migrants to be sent to the two centres that opened last week under a five-year deal to host 3,000 migrants per month picked up by the Italian coast guard, to vet them for possible asylum in Italy or to be sent back to their countries.

But each migrant’s detention must now be reviewed by special migration courts in Italy under Italian law, and on Friday a court in Rome rejected the detention of the 12, arguing that they cannot be sent back to their countries or origin - Bangladesh and Egypt -because the court did not deem the countries to be safe enough.

[BenLurkin]

Send them back to their respective countries of origin. Load them in a crate and airdrop it from the back of a cargo plane if you have to.

[lastchance]

Migrants implies they legally entered the country and would continue on their way to another destination usually for work. You know as in “migrating” like birds. I am pretty sure these were illegal aliens who planned on making Italy their permanent home with the finding of work being a secondary consideration.

[No name given]

And then go after whoever enabled them to enter illegally.

[aquila48]

“Migrants implies they legally entered the country and would continue on their way to another destination usually for work.”

Migrants - that’s the new euphamisn for “invaders”. It’s so much more innocuous.