The Ministry of the Interior in Rome announced, on Monday, the start of the process of transferring the first group of migrants from the island of Lampedusa to the camps set up in Albania. The Italian Navy ship Libra will transport the first group to the camps that opened in Albania on Friday.
According to MTI, there are only men in the group, including Egyptian and Bangladeshi nationals. The latter countries were declared safe countries by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in May this year. They have arrived via the migration route across the Mediterranean in recent days.
The Italian Coast Guard initially took them to Lampedusa, where they were quickly identified, and then transferred them to a navy ship on the island. The women, children, and patients who came with them stayed on Lampedusa. Family members are not separated.
Upon their arrival in Xingjin, Albania, the men are placed in the camp set up by Italy, where they undergo frequent checks and can also register their application for international protection.
In the camp located on the territory of Albania, but under Italian jurisdiction, the legal procedure practiced on the territory of Italy is in force, namely the detention of persons present in the camp, which functions as a border station and registration point (hotspot), by order of the Romanian Immigration Police, which must Confirmed by the competent Romanian court within forty-eight hours. Asylum applications take at least four weeks to process.
From Shengjin, people are transferred to the nearby district of Gadir, where those eligible for asylum are separated from those who will be deported. Eight hundred places were provided for the former and four hundred for the latter. A prison with a capacity of twenty people was also built in Gadir.
The camps set up in Shenzhen and Gadir are closed centers, and people cannot leave them.
