Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has sharply criticized judicial decisions blocking the detention of migrants transferred to Albania, citing the case of a Moroccan rapist with a long criminal record whom authorities say they cannot detain or deport after he applied for international protection.
Speaking to RTL 102.5, Meloni said some court rulings preventing the continued detention of migrants transferred to Italian processing centers in Albania were “surreal” and undermined public safety.
“I also wonder where the feminists are in the face of these events,”Meloni said during the interview, referring to the case of one of the migrants, Moroccan national Fathallah Ouardi, who had been transferred to Albania but was later returned to Italy after judges refused to validate his detention.
Meloni said the man had a lengthy criminal record.“The record of one of these migrants includes convictions for drug dealing, resisting a public official, conspiracy to commit sexual assault, and gang rape,”she said, as cited bySecolo d’Italia.
According to the prime minister, the court rejected the detention order after the migrant applied for international protection.
“This is someone who entered Italy illegally, started dealing drugs, and gang-raped a woman — we can’t detain him, we can’t send him to Albania, we can’t repatriate him, and we’re almost forced to grant him international protection,”she said, adding that such decisions raise serious questions about the protection of victims and public confidence in the justice system.
“How can we guarantee the safety of citizens like this?”she asked. “These decisions are surreal; they affect not the government’s work but citizens’ rights, first and foremost, the right to safety.”
“What trust can a woman who has been gang-raped have in the system if her rapist can’t even be deported?”she added. “I also wonder where the feminists of ‘Non una di meno’ are on these issues.”
The Italian leader also defended her government’s migration policies, including the controversial use of offshore migrant processing centers in Albania.
Source: ZeroHedge News
