Thursday, December 16, the Minister of Justice in Pristina confirmed the agreement to entrust a Kosovar prison of foreign prisoners, sentenced to Denmark and may be expelled after serving their sentence.
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Denmark has crossed, Wednesday, December 15, a new step in its management of foreigners. The Minister of Justice, Nick Haekkerup, announced that the Nordic country plans to rent 300 prison places in Kosovo, to intervene foreign citizens, sentenced to Denmark, and which must be expelled to their country of origin after serving their sentence. On June 3, the Government led by the Social Democrats, had passed a law allowing him to subcontract the reception of asylum seekers and refugees to a third country.
The Agreement on Foreign Inmates has been confirmed on Thursday, December 16, by the Minister Kosovar of Justice, Albulena Haxhiu. This is a first for this small and poor country of the Balkans, directed since the beginning of 2021 by the party of left nationalist self-determination!, Near the European Socialist Party, and which dreams of accession to the European Union .
A letter of intent between the two governments should be signed on Monday, December 20, in Pristina. A treaty will then be submitted for the approval of two-thirds of Parliament. M me Haxhiu revealed that the Danish prisoners would be locked in the Gjilan detention center, in the east of the country, and assured that there would be no terrorists or prisoners to “High risk” among them. According to her, this outsourcing project “is the recognition of Kosovo and its institutions like a serious country”.
“A Danish prison in another country”
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In Copenhagen, the Minister of Justice said that the negotiations with Pristina had started a year ago. The scheme was presented in the context of an agreement between the Social Democrats, the Conservatives, the Danish People’s Party and the Socialist Party of the People, to reform the penitentiary system. The goal is to increase the ability of Danish prisons to accommodate a thousand additional detainees.
In parallel with the opening of new cells in the existing institutions, the government therefore intends to release 300 places by getting rid of foreign inmates, sentenced to expulsion once their pruning. They were 368 in 2020. “It is necessary to imagine that it is a Danish prison. It is just in another country,” said Havekkerup, stating that the team leading the center of Gjilan would be Danish.
A Pristina, M me Haxhiu confirmed: “The laws in force in Denmark will apply, the management will be Danish, but the prison officers will be of the Republic of Kosovo. The well-being. and security [detainees] will be under their full responsibility. “
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