FdI slams 'judicial Left' on Albania migrant ruling

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 18 - Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party on Friday slammed "the judicial Left" after a Rome court failed to ratify detention warrants for 12 migrants held in a new processing centre in Albania, with FdI claiming leftwing magistrates were "helping" the parliamentary Left which has criticised the two new centres.
    The centre left, along with rights groups, has said the new centres are needlessly expensive, with an estimated cost of almost one billion euros, and they unacceptably externalise the migrant issue creating a "new Guantanamo" while in fact processing a handful, 3,000 a year. of the over 100,000 migrants that land in Italy annually.
    The immigration unit of the Rome tribunal on Friday declined to ratify the detention warrants for the 12 migrants in light of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that their countries, Bangladesh and Egypt, are not safe as the Italian government contends.
    In all, 10 Bangladeshis and six Egyptians were taken to the Albanian centre but four were subsequently sent back to Italy, two of them judged 'fragile' and the other two found to be minors.
    The FdI said on X Friday: "Absurd! The court does not validate the detention of migrants in Albania. The judicial left comes to the aid of the parliamentary left".
    The conservative party went on: "Some politicized magistrates have decided that there are no safe countries of origin: it is impossible to detain those who enter illegally, it is forbidden to repatriate illegal immigrants.
    "They would like to abolish Italy's borders, we will not allow it". (ANSA).