One of the judges who did not
validate the detention of the first group of migrants taken to a
processing facility Italy has just opened in Albania on Thursday
reported to the State attorney's office in Rome that she has
received death threats.
Silvia Albano is one of the six judges in the immigration unit
of Rome's tribunal who nixed the detention of the 12 migrants
stating their countries of provenance - Bangladesh and Egypt -
could not be considered safe based on an October 4 ruling of the
European Court of Justice.
Albano is the president of the judiciary's left-wing faction
Magistratura Democratica (Democratic Magistrature, MD).
"The campaign of disrepute that was unleashed against Roman
magistrates and in particular against Silvia Albano has
contributed to build a climate of contrast, of hatred which
finally led to grave threats to her safety and her life", MD
stressed in a note issued on Thursday.
MD also mentioned in the statement the fact that three
prosecutors in Palermo who received threats after requesting a
six-year jail term for Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini on abduction charges in relation to the Open Arms
case have also been recently assigned a security detail,
denouncing a climate of "intimidation" against magistrates.
The ruling of the Rome court on Friday, which led to the
migrants being taken back to Italy from the newly opened centre,
was slammed by government members including Justice Minister
Carlo Nordio which described it as "abnormal".
After the ruling, the government on Monday approved a new 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.
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