“They came from the ship”

From the port of Brindis, a group of 40 migrants, whose asylum applications were rejected in Italy, was published by the interior ministry in Rome. They will be installed in so far an empty center in Gyaderwhich the Italian government intends to use to repatriate migrants.

This move was also accompanied by a MEP Democratic Party Cecilia Stradastated by an Italian news agency Ang. She also published the message on social networks.

With your hands turned

« They were clogged, » she stated, adding that they have no information on which refugee centers in Italy have been deported for the time being. She also stated that it was unclear what their legal position was, and judged that deportation was primarily a governmental persuading of Italian voters, that wasting public money for arranging empty centers in Albania is right.

She described the situation of these deportees as « a mysterious legal nightmare. » It is not known by what criterion they have chosen, nor how long they will be in Albania or what their legal status is.

Courts so far prevented transfer to Albania

It is the first group of migrants, deported to Albania in accordance with the Decree of the Government from the end of March, which allows not only asylum seekers intercepted at sea, but also migrants without regulated status.

There were 40 migrants of different nationalities on the board of the Libra ship: they were supposed to be from Tunisia, Egypt, Moldova, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Georgia and Nigeria.

Both Gjader and the Center in Shengjin are currently empty. The Italian courts have previously prevented the Government from installing asylum seekers in both open centers last year.

Photo: Adnan Beci/AFP

Transfer to be accompanied by protests

The government under the leadership of the Prime Minister Giorgie meloni She therefore decided to turn them into a migrant repatriation center. Left -wing groups protested in Brindisi against the planned transfer of migrants to Albania. « This deportation is an additional evidence of the failure of the migration policy of this right -wing government, which now wants to fill the empty migrant centers in Albania, » said Cobas Local Trade Unions.

Melon is in November 2023 with an Albanian colleague Eddie’s shoulder signed an agreement on the opening of two reception centers on Albanian soil with the aim of reducing migration pressure.

In accordance with the plan, the applications for asylum migrants, which were intercepted by the Italian authorities in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe and transported to Albania, was considered outside the EU, but the judges have prevented it in recent months.