Gjader, the Asylum and Migration Table confirms structural criticalities
After monitoring mission, lack of transparency in transfers, use of psychotropic drugs and violation of human rights denounced
Mancanza di trasparenza nei trasferimenti, assunzione di psicofarmaci da parte di alcune persone trattenute, criticità strutturalie violazione dei diritti umani. La denuncia di un sistema che «appare fallimentare sotto ogni profilo: giuridico, umano, gestionale ed economico» arriva dopo lamissione messa in atto dal Tavolo Asilo e Immigrazione (Tai), in collaborazione con il Gruppo di contatto parlamentare – composto da parlamentari di Camera, Senato ed eurodeputati – ha svolto ieri una nuova missione di monitoraggio in Albania, presso ilcentro diGjader. La struttura di detenzione realizzata dal Governo italiano nell'ambito delProtocollo Italia–Albania, in cui vengono trat
The Supreme Court ruling
The mission, in the presence of MPs Matteo Orfini, Rachele Scarpa and Riccardo Magi, took place - as Tai informs in a note - at a moment of particular political and legal importance, following the Supreme Court's order 23105/2025, which ordered a preliminary referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Supreme Court asked the EU Court to assess whether the Italy-Albania Protocol is compatible with the European Return Directive (2008/115/EC), stressing that detention in Albania takes place in a third non-EU country and may therefore not respect the guarantees and limits established by European law on deprivation of personal freedom.
Migrants present and returns
This is the picture provided on the basis of updated information acquired by TAI: 'Since August, transfers from Italy have been taking place regularly, approximately every fortnight, with an increase to a weekly frequency since October; the last identification number assigned is 219; there are currently 25 people present, with a stable average of 20 and a recorded minimum of 12'. A picture that raises serious perplexities in terms of rights and the costs of a structure built and maintained with considerable public resources, but used only minimally: 'a real waste of public money in the face of inconsistent results and serious repercussions on the rights of the people involved'.
Approximately 70% of the people detained were returned to Italy for non-validation of the detention, while the remaining 30% concerns cases of ineligibility or returns ordered by Italy. In fact, these are detentions without legal basis, in violation of the Return Directive and of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, which has already condemned Italy for similar practices of arbitrary deprivation of personal freedom.
Critical issues
The other critical elements denounced concern 'the lack of transparency in the transfers: the last ones took place by plane from Turin, therefore not monitored by civil society, while the returns to Italy continue by sea, at night, without any guarantee of traceability and independent monitoring. The detainees come mainly from Algeria, Morocco, Senegal and the Ivory Coast, with the presence of a Syrian and a South American citizen. It was also found that some people take psychopharmaceutical drugs, which seem to be offered to many detainees, raising serious concerns about the psycho-physical conditions and the modalities of health care within the facility'.
