Libra reaches Albania with 8 migrants on board

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 8 - The Italian Navy ship Libra reached the Albanian port of Shengjin on Friday with eight migrants on board who were intercepted four days ago south of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
    The group includes three Egyptians and eight citizens of Bangladesh, well-informed sources said.
    The eight asylum seekers will undergo medical screenings and identification procedures before being transferred to the Italian-run Gjader centre where they will wait for their detention to be validated by the immigration unit of Rome's tribunal.
    The first group of asylum seekers to be taken by the Libra to Albania included 12 citizens of Bangladesh and Egypt whose detention at the processing centre was not validated by the Rome court on October 18 on the grounds that their countries of provenance were not whole safe, based on a decision issued earlier that month by the European Court of Justice.
    On October 21, the cabinet approved a decree defining a list of safe countries for repatriation including Bangladesh and Egypt.
    (ANSA).