{"id":156763,"date":"2024-10-18T23:41:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T23:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/blow-to-italys-pm-meloni-as-court-blocks-plan-to-detain-migrants-in-albania\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T23:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T23:41:39","slug":"blow-to-italys-pm-meloni-as-court-blocks-plan-to-detain-migrants-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/blow-to-italys-pm-meloni-as-court-blocks-plan-to-detain-migrants-in-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow to Italy’s PM Meloni as court blocks plan to detain migrants in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Italian court has ruled against its government’s attempt to send a dozen migrants to newly opened centres in Albania.<\/p>\n

The 12 people were part of a first group of 16 due to go to the two sites, which opened last week.<\/p>\n

Under the plans, the centres had been expected to host up to 3,000 migrants picked up by the Italian coastguard per month.<\/p>\n

As part of the five-year deal between Italy<\/a><\/strong> and Albania, the migrants would then be processed for possible asylum in Italy or be sent back to their home nations.<\/p>\n

However, each migrant’s detention must be reviewed by special migration courts in Italy under Italian law. On Friday, a court in Rome rejected the detention of 12 of the migrants and said they had a right to be brought to Italy.<\/p>\n

The court said they could not be returned to their countries of origin, Bangladesh and Egypt, because the judges did not deem the countries to be safe enough.<\/p>\n

The four other migrants would also not enter the centres after staff deemed them to be vulnerable following health screenings.<\/p>\n

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The verdict is a blow to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s<\/a><\/strong> policy, which she previously hailed as a new “model” to handle illegal migration.<\/p>\n

The anti-migration League party, part of Ms Meloni’s coalition government, criticised the court’s decision, accusing its judges of being left-wing activists.<\/p>\n

The Italian centre-left opposition has hit out at the plans for being too expensive, complicated and damaging to migrants’ rights.<\/p>\n

The 16 migrants, 10 Bangladeshis and six Egyptians, must now all be transferred to Italy.<\/p>\n

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Ms Meloni criticised the ruling and said that deeming countries such as Bangladesh and Egypt unsafe meant that virtually all migrants would be barred from the Albania<\/a><\/strong> programme.<\/p>\n

Her government plans to appeal against the ruling.<\/p>\n

The centres, run by Italian officials with Albanian guards, are expected to cost Italy \u20ac670m (\u00a3560m) over five years.<\/p>\n

The agreement has been endorsed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as an example of “out-of-box thinking” in tackling the issue of migration.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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