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.
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