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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9912

3 June 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Rome must check for legitimate asylum seekers among those it sends back to Libya

Brussels, 02/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - European Immigration Commissioner Jacques Barrot said on Friday 29 May that Italy's return to Libya of possible asylum seekers picked up in the Mediterranean was unacceptable. “Where illegal immigrants are picked up at sea and sent back by Italy, there is no way to check for legitimate asylum seekers, and that is unacceptable,” he stated, following a meeting of G8 Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in Rome. At the start of May, vessels of the...

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