Meloni sends Albania to another 49 migrants intercepted on the high seas when they tried to reach Italy
An Italian military ship has docked Tuesday at the Albanian port of Shëngjin with 49 migrants intercepted on the high seas when they tried to reach Italy, and that will be admitted to the detention and expulsion centers built in Albania by the ultra -rightist government of Giorgia Meloni.
The Patrol 'Cassiopea' of the Italian Navy arrived at the Albanian port at 07.45 local time, as confirmed to Efe a photographer from the EPA agency from the place, after three days of crossing from the immediate vicinity of the Italian island of Lampedusa, where The migrants were intercepted.
The Italian Interior Ministry has reported that these people will now be submitted to “reception, detention and evaluation of individual cases”, according to the agreement reached with the Albanian prime minister, the Social Democrat Edi Rama.
The 49 migrants selected to be subjected to an accelerated border procedure for those who come from countries considered insurance by Italy are mostly from Bangladés, as well as Egypt, Ivory Coast and Gambia.
This is the third attempt of the Meloni Executive to launch his controversial plan to intern in Albania to irregular migrants intercepted on his way to Italy.
In the center of Shengjin, asylum seekers will be identified and subject to a deep medical examination, since if vulnerable conditions are detected, they will be taken to Italy, as already happened in some cases in the two transfers before Albania, in October and last November.
The first two attempts also failed because the Italian justice did not validate the shipments arguing that neither Egypt nor Bangladés were safely safe and had claimed the intervention of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Since then the centers have been empty, monitored and managed by an increasingly reduced staff, which has caused strong criticism of the government for expenses.
The Italian Supreme Court subsequently pointed out that the Government corresponds to which countries are safe and that the judge cannot systematically invalidate migrants' detention, but can motivate the specific case by which this person is not sure in that country.
After the evaluation of their cases, immigrants will be sent to the Gjader Internment Center, which has the capacity for 3,000 people a month, surrounded by a walled wall and crowned wire seven meters high and equipped with surveillance cameras.
Italy financed the construction of the center, located in an old air base built during the communist dictatorship in Albania. The Italian government manages the Center and the Albana Police is limited to monitoring its outer perimeter.
