SHENGJIN, Albania (AP) — An Italian navy ship on Saturday took migrants to Italy from asylum processing facilities in Albania following a court docket resolution in Rome. It was the third failed try by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right authorities to course of migrants within the non-EU nation.
A coast guard ship took 43 migrants from the port of Shengjin, 66 kilometers (40 miles) northwest of the capital, Tirana. They had been among the many 49 men who had been transferred to Albania on an Italian naval ship Tuesday. 5 of them had been returned the identical day — 4 as a result of they had been minors and the fifth as a result of he was thought-about a “susceptible” individual.
The destiny of 1 closing migrant shouldn’t be clear.
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Italian media reported the boys had been from Bangladesh, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Gambia.
An Italian appeals court in Rome on Friday refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum-seekers detained in Albania since Tuesday below a controversial migration deal to maneuver the proceedings past European Union borders.
The court docket referred the case to the European Court docket of Justice, in Luxembourg, which is anticipated to problem a ruling on Feb. 25 associated to the earlier instances, during which the sequence of decrease court docket rulings have opened a fissure between the Meloni authorities and the Italian judicial system.
In October and November, judges equally refused to approve the expulsion of a lot smaller teams of migrants, searching for readability from the European court docket on which nations had been secure for repatriation of individuals whose asylum claims are rejected.
Italy final yr signed a five-year settlement to course of as much as 3,000 migrants a month past EU borders as a part of Meloni’s program to fight unlawful migration to Italy, which is the primary landfall for tens of hundreds of migrants who make the perilous journey throughout the central Mediterranean Sea.
Whereas the settlement has raised issues amongst human rights activists, European companions have expressed curiosity within the challenge.
Within the first 4 weeks of this yr, 3,704 migrants arrived in Italy, nearly 3 times as many as in the identical interval final yr. In the entire of final yr, 66,317 migrants arrived in Italy, a drop of 58% from the earlier yr. The biggest nationality was Bangladeshis, adopted by Syrians, Tunisians and Egyptians, based on the Italian Inside Ministry.
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Semini reported from Tirana, Albania.
