Bologna judges didn't attack political sphere- lawyers (2)

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 2 - The Italian Criminal Lawyers Association on Saturday defended the Bologna judges who referred a new government measure defining a list of safe countries for repatriation to the European Court of Justice, a move that sparked accusations that the judiciary was encroaching the political realm.
    "The Court of Bologna moved with particular prudence by placing its requests within the correct supranational and national normative and jurisprudential parameters," said the association's president Francesco Petrelli.
    "It is frankly impossible to see the choice of a preliminary interlocution with the Court of Justice, as an attack on politics".
    The Bologna court's referral to ask which parameter should be used when determining safety and whether the principle of the primacy of EU law should prevail if a conflict arises with Italian legislation was issued in relation to an appeal presented by an asylum seeker from Bangladesh.
    The government decree listing 19 countries, including Bangladesh, as safe, said Italian courts cannot rule against it on the basis of an October 4 European Court of Justice sentence based on which Rome judges nixed the detention of a group of migrants at a new Italian-run centre in Albania last month.
    (ANSA).