This is one of Albania’s controversial migrant centers where migrants stopped by Italy will end up

They arrived this Wednesday albania first migrants transferred Italy Within the framework of the controversial system of externalization of migrant reception outside the European Union (EU), signed by both countries.

Thus, these 16 migrants, Stopped in the Mediterranean after leaving LibyaThe center will be the first to be housed in one of the new identification and retention centers built in the Balkan country. There they will spend the relevant time completing asylum application procedures and, if positive, will be deported back to Italy upon receiving refugee status.

In particular, the images match the center of shengjinAs can be seen in the images, it is a walled enclosure 3,500 square meters Filled with barracks to temporarily house about 200 migrants.

At this location, officials will receive and register migrants sent by Italy, where they will receive food, clean clothes, and health care if necessary.

After this, they will be taken gazdarThe second immigration center where they will stay until their asylum application is resolved. Gazader is a former military base that has been converted into a detention center. Its area is 70,000 square meters and its circumference is more than 2 kilometers. In addition to drones and security cameras, it is guarded by the army, state police and the Italian Carabinieri. And if that wasn’t enough, it is surrounded by a 5 meter high wall.

The old base has been demarcated into several areas where migrants will be housed depending on the stage of the asylum/removal process in which they are located.