Meloni ignores Italian justice and will resume the transfer of migrants to its centers in Albania in the coming days
Italy to resume migration of migrants to disputed areas in coming days retention center It was created to manage possible repatriations to Albanian territory after they were forced to evacuate by the justice system and, in response, the government of Giorgia Meloni. Issue decree laws for their protection,
The naval ship Libra, which was responsible for the first transfer of migrants to Albania three weeks ago, “Will return to the high seas in the coming days”Interior Ministry sources confirmed this to EFE this Saturday. According to local media, the so-called “Albania Operation” I can start again next Monday, When the ship docks 20 miles from the island of Lampedusa (South), which is the gateway for people crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Italy.
Official sources told EFE that no specific date could be established yet, as “it will also depend on sea conditions and the departure of boats with migrants in the Mediterranean”. In any case, the ship will rescue those who are in international waters Those who meet the established requirements will be transferred to Albania In the agreement signed between Rome and Tirana, by which two centers were created in the Albanian cities of Shengjin and Gjedor in order to reduce the pressure on the Italian reception system.
The operation could resume only three weeks after the first and unsuccessful transfer to Shengjin of 16 migrants from Egypt and Bangladesh: four of them had to be immediately returned because they were minors or “vulnerable” and two days later a Rome court Has not done this. Validated the detention of the remaining twelve and ordered them to return to Italy.
The judicial decision, based on a European ruling and alleging that the migrants sent to Albania came from “unsafe countries”, provoked the outcry of the government, which approved a decree setting out by law the list of those countries. Which an immigrant does not have. Why avoid and save controversial centers in Albania like this. Meloni’s strategy, which consisted of establishing a list of “safe countries” with a decree on the force of law to be used for reasons of “necessity or urgency”, was questioned by the Court of Bologna (Northern Italy). , which consulted with the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) believes it violated European law.
But The far-right Prime Minister has decided to move forward on the deal without waiting for a reactionafter saying on television that the petition to the Bologna court was “viewed by many as a propaganda pamphlet rather than a judicial document.” The Meloni government, which received support from European countries and favorable approval from Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for its plan before the judicial confrontation, is being heavily criticized by the opposition.
The latest controversy in this regard arose this Friday, when local media revealed that the housing of approximately 300 Italian police officers in charge of managing the centers in Albania will cost approximately 9 million euros per year. The accommodation cost is 8.89 million euros, including 80 euros per day per police officer, and it is planned that the security forces will live in two 4-star tourist complexes, with swimming pools, beaches, restaurants and recreational facilities. Will also happen.
The high cost of the plan has also been criticized, which is expected to cost 800 million euros over five years, while the Shengjin and Gjeder centers have been without migrants for two weeks, despite having a population of about 300 workers: translators, cleaners. According to the same sources, medical and nursing staff and police officers