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An Italian appeals court in Rome on Friday refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum-seekers detained in Albania since Tuesday under a controversial migration deal to move the proceedings beyond European Union borders.
An Italian navy ship on Saturday took migrants to Italy from asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome, marking the third failed attempt by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government to process migrants in the non-EU country
A coast guard ship took 43 migrants from the port of Shengjin, 66 kilometres (40 miles) northwest of Tirana’s capital. They were among the 49 men transferred to Albania on Tuesday’s Italian naval ship. Six were returned the same day for being minors or deemed vulnerable. The men were from Bangladesh, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Gambia.
An Italian appeals court in Rome on Friday refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum-seekers detained in Albania since Tuesday under a controversial migration deal to move the proceedings beyond European Union borders.
The court referred the case to the European Court of Justice, in Luxembourg, which is expected to issue a ruling on Feb. 25 related to the previous cases, in which the series of lower court rulings have opened a fissure between the Meloni government and the Italian judicial system.
Italy last year signed a five-year agreement to process up to 3,000 migrants a month beyond EU borders as part of Meloni’s program to combat illegal migration to Italy, which is the first landfall for tens of thousands of migrants who make the perilous journey across the central Mediterranean Sea.
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According to the Italian Interior Ministry, Bangladeshis were the largest nationality, followed by Syrians, Tunisians, and Egyptians.
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