Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing
Brothers of Italy (FdI) party on Friday slammed "the judicial
Left" after a Rome court failed to ratify detention warrants for
12 migrants held in a new processing centre in Albania, with FdI
claiming leftwing magistrates were "helping" the parliamentary
Left which has criticised the two new centres.
The centre left, along with rights groups, has said the new
centres are needlessly expensive, with an estimated cost of
almost one billion euros, and they unacceptably externalise the
migrant issue creating a "new Guantanamo" while in fact
processing a handful, 3,000 a year. of the over 100,000 migrants
that land in Italy annually.
The immigration unit of the Rome tribunal on Friday declined to
ratify the detention warrants for the 12 migrants in light of a
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that their countries,
Bangladesh and Egypt, are not safe as the Italian government
contends.
In all, 10 Bangladeshis and six Egyptians were taken to the
Albanian centre but four were subsequently sent back to Italy,
two of them judged 'fragile' and the other two found to be
minors.
The FdI said on X Friday: "Absurd! The court does not validate
the detention of migrants in Albania. The judicial left comes to
the aid of the parliamentary left".
The conservative party went on: "Some politicized magistrates
have decided that there are no safe countries of origin: it is
impossible to detain those who enter illegally, it is forbidden
to repatriate illegal immigrants.
"They would like to abolish Italy's borders, we will not allow
it".
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