Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared war on Italy’s judges who are trying to kybosh at birth her much vaunted scheme to offshore illegal migrants to Albania.
Last Friday, a court in Rome dealt Meloni’s Albania scheme a potentially fatal blow by ruling that the first migrants sent to Albania cannot be detained and must be freed because their countries of origin – Bangladesh and Egypt – are unsafe.
The Toghe Rosse have Meloni in their sights
She has now issued an emergency decree to change the law and her ministers are confident that it will stop the judges making similar rulings in the future.
Meloni’s Albania scheme launched last week and is seen across Europe as a potential game changer in the battle to stop illegal migrants. The aim is to ferry up to 3,000 migrants a month picked up in the central Mediterranean straight to Albania 750 miles away to process and repatriate them in record time. It is much easier to achieve this in Albania than Italy.
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