Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini said in a note issued Monday after a judge in
Catania nixed the detention of an Egyptian asylum seeker that
Italy is not a safe country anymore due to some judges.
"Due to some Communist judges who don't implement laws, the
unsafe country at this point is Italy.
"But we are not giving up!", the League leader said.
A judge in Catania on Monday scrapped the detention of an
Egyptian asylum seeker at a processing facility in Pozzallo,
Sicily, even though he hails from a country listed as safe for
repatriation by a new government decree.
In the decision, the judge did not validate the detention for
the asylum seeker during the examination of his request for
international protection on the grounds that the list of 'safe
countries' defined by the decree "does not exempt the judge from
the obligation to verify the compatibility" of such "designation
with European Union law" and "in Egypt grave violation of human
rights have been reported".
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