InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/01/25
The Court of Rome ruled that the readmission procedure enacted at the eastern Italian border based on an accord between Italy and Slovenia in 1996 is illegitimate. Judges upheld an appeal brought by a Pakistani asylum seeker who arrived in Trieste and was readmitted in July to Slovenia, then to Croatia and then to Bosnia.
Readmissions of migrants from Italy to Slovenia are illegitimate, ruled the Court of Rome in an ordinance on January 18 when it upheld an urgent appeal brought by a Pakistani asylum seeker.
The man had arrived in Trieste and was readmitted in July 2020 to Slovenia, from there to Croatia, and further on to Bosnia. Judges said the man has the right to immediately enter Italy to apply for asylum.
The Greek government has called on the European Union to help ensure the return of 1,450 failed asylum seekers currently in camps on the Greek Islands to Turkey "on the basis of the EU-Turkey deal".