The first 16 migrants deported by Italy disembark in Albania | International | EUROtoday

The Italian navy ship Libra arrived on the port of Shengjin, in Albania, at eight within the morning, and shortly after, at 9:39, the 16 migrants rescued on Monday within the Mediterranean started to disembark. They descended in a bunch of 4 and in simply quarter-hour they had been all on the bottom. They would be the first to remain within the new detention heart that Italy has constructed within the Balkan nation, after the controversial settlement signed with the Government of Tirana in 2023. The navy ship stands out over the fishing boats within the small port of this vacationer seaside city and lodges. The Albanian authorities don’t permit the press, which is 200 meters away from the ship, to strategy.

The Libra is docked on the dock in entrance of the reception and identification heart constructed by Italy, with barracks and delimited by a wall, the place the 16 deported folks (10 Bengalis and 6 Egyptians) will bear a medical examination. Then they are going to have the ability to make their asylum requests proper there and the 48-hour interval will start for a choose in Rome to validate or reject the request to provoke an accelerated administration process with retention of the affected particular person, the tactic that Italy goes to make use of in Albania. It is a decisive process and filled with unknowns, as a result of the choose can deny permission. This is what the courts of Palermo and Catania are doing, in actual fact, in 90% of the instances. The judicial challenge is the true litmus take a look at for the Italian Government, to verify if this new system in Albania can work. The EU can be very attentive, as a result of the European Commission is contemplating extending it and takes it as an experiment.

Among the numerous questions pending solutions is what’s going to occur if the choose rejects the request to use the speedy process to those 16 folks. In precept, they need to be transferred to Italy, as a result of they can not keep in Albania and this might full an absurd journey. The price of transporting them to Albania has been calculated at 18,000 euros per particular person. The heart in Albania prices 800 million over 5 years.

The key to the rejection or acceptance of the request for a speedy process is a current ruling by the European Court of Justice that has lowered from 22 to 7 the nations thought of protected to whose residents Italy can apply this speedy asylum processing and retention system, and if This is the case of expulsion, on the border. It is the pillar on which the whole protocol devised in Albania is predicated, and if it fails, it might collapse. And the very fact is that the ruling has disregarded of this process all the primary nations of origin of migrants who arrive in Italy by the Mediterranean, akin to Bangladesh, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Precisely on this primary Italian ship that has simply docked in Shengjin, the migrants are from Bangladesh and Egypt. Among the one seven nations thought of protected by the European courtroom, there is just one African nation, Cape Verde, with only a few arrivals, and the remainder are Balkan, together with, paradoxically, Albania.

The 16 migrants, as soon as the primary arrival procedures have been carried out within the Shengjin heart, the place there aren’t any beds and it’s only transit, can be transferred by buses to the massive detention heart in Gjader, 30 kilometers away. It is a big Italian jail on Italian soil outdoors the EU. The inmates cannot get out of there. It has capability for a thousand seats. It is there the place deported migrants will stay detained ready for his or her recordsdata to be resolved. In principle, in keeping with this fast process, it needs to be in 28 days. Then, if their asylum request is rejected, they should be repatriated, it’s not but clear how. It isn’t identified if by aircraft or boat from Albania, or earlier than they should go to Italy.