An Italian naval ship carrying eight folks rescued shut to the island of Lampedusa docked at the Albanian port of Shengjin on Friday.
It used to be only the second group of migrants to arrive in the metropolis as section of a deal between Rome and Tirana.
Below the settlement, folks intercepted by the Italian flee guard are to be sheltered at two reception centres in Albania, with a cap of 3,000 at any one time.
Staffed by Italian personnel, the migrants are then vetted for imaginable asylum in Italy, failing which they’ll be despatched inspire home.
However an initial group of 16 migrants taken to Albania final month had been all moved to Italy within days, four of them because they had been minors or had health points.
A Rome court docket dominated that the other 12 could well no longer be held in the Balkan nation because their nations of origin could well no longer be labeled as “protected” below European law.
Consequently, their asylum applications could well no longer be processed below a hasty-monitor procedure in Albania.
The deal between Italy and Albania has been widely criticised by human rights groups as setting a foul precedent.
