Operations to take migrants to Albania
"can resume", Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Monday on
the sidelines of a G7 ministerial meeting on sustainable urban
development.
Such operations will take place "as soon as there will be the
logistical conditions of interception and transit of migrants
and then to pre-screen people potentially eligible to be
transferred" to Albania, he noted.
Piantedosi also expressed confidence that a decree listing safe
countries for expatriation approved by the government on October
21 will overcome the issue of courts not validating the
detention of migrants, as occurred when a Rome tribunal on
October 18 nixed the detention of the first group of migrants
taken to the newly opened facilities in Albania on the grounds
that their countries of provenance were not safe, based on an
October 4 decision taken by the European Court of Justice.
"If I hadn't been" confident, "we wouldn't have done it", said
Piantedosi, referring to the decree.
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