A new decree approved on Monday night
by the government after Rome judges nixed the detention of a
group of migrants at a new Italian-run centre in Albania allows
the interior ministry to appeal against a court's decision not
to allow the detention of migrants at hosting and repatriation
centres.
The second of three articles comprising the measure provides for
the interior ministry to appeal a decision within five days.
The appeal, however, "does not suspend" the challenged decision,
according to the decree's article.
The "court of appeals, after listening to the sides, decides
within 10 days with an executive decree effective immediately",
said the text, in relation to challenged rulings of first
instance that do not validate the detention of migrants at
hosting and repatriation centres.
Last Friday, the Rome court's immigration unit scrubbed the
detention of the first 12 migrants to be sent to a new
processing centre Italy has opened in Albania on grounds they
did not come from wholly safe countries, Bangladesh and Egypt.
The government on Monday approved the decree listing 19
countries, including Egypt and Bangladesh, as safe, saying
courts cannot rule against it on the basis of the October 4
European Court of Justice on which Friday's decision was based.
The 19 newly approved safe countries whose status is bolstered
by the 'primary' legislation are: Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia,
Georgia, Ghana, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Morocco, Montenegro,
Peru, Senegal, Serbia, Sri Lanka and Tunisia.
Meanwhile on Wednesday the League party presented "a few
amendments" to draft legislation on the separation of the career
paths of judges and State attorneys which provide for "Italian
laws to prevail over European" legislation, the League's whip in
the Constitutional Affairs Committee, lawmaker Igor Iezzi, told
ANSA.
Iezzi said the proposal was unconnected to the content of the
draft measure under discussion but, since the separation of the
judiciary's careers was a "constitutional reform, it is suitable
to propose the theme in this context".
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