MADRID 30 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Italian Supreme Court has taken a position with the Italian Government and Prosecutor’s Office regarding the designation of safe countries for the return of migrants who have arrived in the country. With this decision, the judicial route in Italy is exhausted and the issue could be studied by the Court of Justice of the EU.
“The guarantee judge who examines each individual case (…) does not replace the evaluation, which generally corresponds only to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the other ministers who intervene,” he added.
“The determination of safe countries corresponds to the ministers,” the Supreme Court has indicated, which is why it orders the suspension of all precautionary measures in force that prevented the deportation of immigrants from third countries, such as Albania.
The Supreme Court order thus reverses the decision of the Court of Rome that revoked the expulsion to Albania of a group of immigrants on October 18.
After the announcement, the Brothers of Italy party, to which the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, belongs, stressed that “the Supreme Court agrees with the Government over Albania.”
“The decisions of the Court of Rome on the immigrants returned from Albania were erroneous and, above all, as we said, in this specific case, the Government was right,” added the party’s spokesperson in the Senate, Lucio Malan, according to the press. Italian.
For this reason, “those from the left who have attacked the Government and the ‘Albanian model’ for weeks, which all of Europe wants to know and use, should read the order and apologize,” Malan argued.
After this decision, the Government “will continue on the path it has set: returning immigration to the rules of law and fighting against traffickers and smugglers.”
The Italian authorities have transferred two groups of migrants to Albania, although in both cases these people have ended up returning to Italy by order of a judge, since several courts have questioned the legal compliance of the commitments signed by the Italian Government.