Guarantor: ‘Limited number of migrants does not justify transfer to Albania’

Milan, 4 Nov. (LaPresse) – ‘The extremely limited number of people present in the CPR during the visit, 28 on the first day and 27 on the second, together with the availability of places in centres located throughout the country, makes the transfer of these people to Albania unjustified, in the opinion of the writer.’ This is what we read in the report by the Ombudsman for Detainees regarding the CPR in Gjader, Albania. The report is online as of today, after having already been sent to the Prefect of Rome, Lamberto Giannini, the Head of the Department for Civil Liberties and Immigration of the Ministry of the Interior, Rosanna Rabuano, and, for information, to the National Ombudsman for the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty from the Ombudsman for Persons Subject to Measures Restricting Personal Liberty of the Lazio Region, Stefano Anastasìa, and the Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Deprived of Personal Liberty of Rome Capital, Valentina Calderone, on the visit to the Repatriation Centre (CPR) and the prison section of Gjadër, Albania. The Gjadër centre is under the responsibility of the Prefecture of Rome, which means that it falls within the territorial jurisdiction of the Guarantors of the Rights of Persons Detained in the Lazio Region and Rome Capital, who visited it on 29 and 30 July. The Guarantors recommend “assessing the inappropriateness of transferring people from Italian CPRs to the CPR in Gjadër, as these CPRs are not suffering from any conditions of overcrowding. These transfers, in addition to representing a huge cost to the public budget, make communication between detainees and their networks in Italy even more complicated, significantly compromising their right to defence”.