One of the judges who did not
validate the detention of the first group of migrants taken to a
processing facility Italy has just opened in Albania on Thursday
reported to the State attorney's office in Rome that she has
received death threats. Silvia Albano is one of the six judges
in the immigration unit of Rome's tribunal who nixed the
detention of the 12 migrants stating their countries of
provenance - Bangladesh and Egypt - could not be considered safe
based on an October 4 ruling of the European Court of Justice.
Albano is the president of the judiciary's left-wing faction
Magistratura Democratica (Democratic Magistrature, MD). "The
campaign of disrepute that was unleashed against Roman
magistrates and in particular against Silvia Albano has
contributed to build a climate of contrast, of hatred which
finally led to grave threats to her safety and her life", MD
stressed in a note issued on Thursday. MD also mentioned in the
statement the fact that three prosecutors in Palermo who
received threats after requesting a six-year jail term for
Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini on
abduction charges in relation to the Open Arms case have also
been recently assigned a security detail, denouncing a climate
of "intimidation" against magistrates. The ruling of the Rome
court on Friday, which led to the migrants being taken back to
Italy from the newly opened centre, was slammed by government
members including Justice Minister Carlo Nordio which described
it as "abnormal". After the ruling, the government on Monday
approved a new 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.
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