Migrant decree allows interior ministry to appeal ruling

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 23 - A new decree approved on Monday night by the government after Rome judges nixed the detention of a group of migrants at a new Italian-run centre in Albania allows the interior ministry to appeal against a court's decision not to allow the detention of migrants at hosting and repatriation centres. The second of three articles comprising the measure provides for the interior ministry to appeal a decision within five days.
    The appeal, however, "does not suspend" the challenged decision, according to the decree's article.
    The "court of appeals, after listening to the sides, decides within 10 days with an executive decree effective immediately", said the text, in relation to challenged rulings of first instance that do not validate the detention of migrants at hosting and repatriation centres.
    Last Friday, the Rome court's immigration unit scrubbed the detention of the first 12 migrants to be sent to a new processing centre Italy has opened in Albania on grounds they did not come from wholly safe countries, Bangladesh and Egypt.
    The government on Monday approved the decree listing 19 countries, including Egypt and Bangladesh, as safe, saying courts cannot rule against it on the basis of the October 4 European Court of Justice on which Friday's decision was based.
    The 19 newly approved safe countries whose status is bolstered by the 'primary' legislation are: Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Morocco, Montenegro, Peru, Senegal, Serbia, Sri Lanka and Tunisia.
    Meanwhile on Wednesday the League party presented "a few amendments" to draft legislation on the separation of the career paths of judges and State attorneys which provide for "Italian laws to prevail over European" legislation, the League's whip in the Constitutional Affairs Committee, lawmaker Igor Iezzi, told ANSA.
    Iezzi said the proposal was unconnected to the content of the draft measure under discussion but, since the separation of the judiciary's careers was a "constitutional reform, it is suitable to propose the theme in this context". (ANSA).