The government itself has acknowledged that, even were the court to deem the scheme legal, and deportation flights to Kigali take off, Rwanda could take only small numbers of deportees, possibly 300 a year across the four years of the trial period.
The details remain sketchy, but the scheme appears to be a form of offshore processing whereby those heading for Italy but intercepted in international waters are to be detained in Albania and their cases heard there. The judges overseeing the cases will, however, be Italian and, to provide a legal fig leaf for their decisions, will sit in courtrooms deemed to be under Italian jurisdiction.
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