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On May 9, the Italian government repatriated from Tirana 5 Egyptian citizens detained in the Gjadri detention center. The operation is considered incompatible with European law…
Italy is slowly and quietly pushing the red line of what it can do to combat illegal immigration.
He does this away from prying eyes in the Italian center of Albania, from where, on May 9, he allegedly repatriated 5 Egyptian citizens without letting them pass through Italy.
An operation that is hardly in line with current European legislation and about which the European Commission seems to have been left in the dark.
Brussels is either turning a deaf ear, or the Italian authorities have not informed them.
Yesterday (June 24), the European Commission's spokesperson for Home Affairs, Markus Lammert, stated that "according to our information, so far national law is being applied in Gjara and this is in line with EU law."
Essentially, what makes the existence of the facility possible is the legal construction, according to which it is technically not in Albanian territory, but in a fictitious extension of Italian territory.
However, this means that, if the Italian Government does not allow charter planes to depart directly from the center in Gjadra, the repatriated migrants must first be brought to Italy.
Their deportation on a flight from Tirana airport constitutes an illegal transfer under European law. According to data from Viminale, from April 11, when Gjadri reopened as an immigration detention center (CPR), until May 21, 24 migrants held there returned to Italy to be repatriated to their countries of origin.
However, Altraeconomia revealed on May 9 that a plane departed from Rome Fiumicino to the Albanian capital, from where it departed for Cairo with the 5 Egyptian citizens, who were in the Gjadri center. According to Gianfranco Schiavone of the Association for Legal Studies on Immigration (ASGI), "it is in no way acceptable to envisage the removal of a person from the detention center area, to Albanian territory, and then repatriation from there."
Furthermore, Schiavone emphasizes, "police operations carried out outside the Gjadri center on Albanian territory in relation to transported persons are deprived of jurisdictional control and therefore take place without any legal cover."
The fact is that the European Commission, which as the guardian of the Treaties must speak out in the face of such a violation of EU law, proposed on March 11 a tightening of repatriations that foresees the creation of detention centers in third countries from which migrants who are not entitled to asylum in the EU can be repatriated directly.
A help for Italy, which, however, has resolutely foreseen what a proposal foresees that is only at the beginning of a long legislative process.
According to Cecilia Strada and Alessandro Zan, MEPs from the Democratic Party, the operation is "extremely serious and incompatible with European law". They accuse the government of "wanting to ignore it in silence".
Democratic MEPs, also supported by the Green Left Alliance and the 5 Star Movement, asked the European Commission to reveal whether it was aware of what had happened and what actions it was "taking to ensure full compliance with EU law on returns". / Pamphlet adapted from Eunews.it/
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