On 18 October, the Court of Rome invalidated the detention of the 12 people held in the Albanian center. According to the recent ECJ ruling on “safe countries”, none of the detainees can be recognized as coming from safe countries and must be returned to Italy.
On 16 October, 16 people, 10 men from Bangladesh and 6 from Egypt, were brought to the new reception centers in Albania after being rescued from a shipwreck near Lampedusa, following the Italy-Albania agreement. Under Italian law, children and women are automatically designated as vulnerable and transferred to Italy, while men who do not meet the criteria for vulnerability are relocated to Albania. Of the 16 people, 4 have to be sent back to Italy: two are minors and two are considered as vulnerable and in need of medical care.
On 15 October, a judge submitted a decree to the Constitutional Court for review, questioning whether Libya can really be considered a safe port for migrants.
On 11 October, five months after the scheduled opening date, work was completed on the construction of the migrant centers that Italy plans to open in Albania, with the first arrivals expected within a week.
On 11 October, Sea-Eye reported and documented how masked individuals forced 22 people to jump from a boat in international waters and then left them. The NGO’s boat rescued the 22 people and took them to Italy.
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