'Abnormal sentence' on Albania migrant centre - Nordio

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 19 - Justice Minister Carlo Nordio on Saturday said the political reaction after a Rome court Friday nixed the detention of all 12 migrants taken to a new Italian-run centre in Albania "was not against magistrates but against the nature of this sentence which we don't share and we believe was actually abnormal".
    "It's not up to magistrature to define whether a State is safe or not, it is a highly political decision", said the minister, referring to the fact that the migrants' detention was not validated on the grounds that their countries of provenance, Bangladesh and Egypt, are not safe.
    "We will take legislative measures", Nordio told reporters on the sidelines of a congress in Palermo.
    The justice minister went on to say that, "if magistrates overstep their powers giving themselves prerogatives they cannot have like defining a safe State politics, representing the will of the people, must intervene.
    "We respond to the people, if the people don't agree with what we do, we go home.
    "The judiciary, which is autonomous and independent, doesn't respond to anyone and therefore for this reason cannot take prerogatives that are exclusively and essentially political", said Nordio. (ANSA).