Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday expressed shock at a decision by a Catania court to release a migrant from detention on the grounds that measures in a recent government decree are allegedly illegitimate.
Under the decree, migrants can be held in pre-expulsion CPR centres for up to 18 months but can post a ‘bail’ of 5,000 euros in order to avert being detained, a measure that has spurred widespread criticism.
“I was astonished by the Catania judge’s ruling, which, on incredible grounds… freed an illegal immigrant who had already received a deportation order, unilaterally declaring Tunisia an unsafe country (which is not the judiciary’s job) and going against the measures of a democratically elected government,” Meloni said in a social-media post.
“It is not the first time this has happened but we will continue to defend the borders (of Italy)”.
Meloni ‘astonished’ by court ruling against govt’s migrant decree – English – ANSA.it
