33 minutes agoExporting foreign prisoners to Kosovo, Denmark seen as hostile to migrants
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Denmark signed an agreement on the transfer of foreign prisoners to Kosovo. The state also wants to ban asylum demands. In Kosovo, the detainees at the Gjilan prison will soon have to pack their belongings. Local authorities agreed, on December 20th, to rent Denmark 300 of its cells [...]
In Kosovo, the detainees at the Gjilan prison will soon have to pack their belongings. The local authorities agreed, on December 20th, to rent Denmark 300 cells from this institution of suffering penalty inaugurated in 2017.
The five-year-old rent, renovated once, could bring 210m euros to Pristina. The prisoners Copenhagen aims to send there have a very specific profile: they are foreigners from a country outside the European Union, without children in Denmark whose sentence is accompanied by expulsion.
How far will the little Nordic kingdom go in its foreign management policy? The agreement with Kosovo, one of the poorest countries in Europe, follows other controversial decisions targeting the immigrant population living on its territory.
“S along with Hungary, Denmark is the country with the most hostile position towards migrants within the European Union”, said Catherine Wollard, director of the European Council for Refugees and Exiles, a network of NGOs.
Denmark rents 300 prison cells in Kosovo to reduce overcrowding. A project for prisoners who will be deported at the end of their sentence will expand the bust of Danish prisons.
This project, which aims to reduce prison overcrowding, will also increase the 326-seat Danish prison stock between 2022 and 2025“, the Danish Justice Minister said in a statement.
Last year, 350 arrested would be deported at the end of the sentence.
The Danish prison population has increased by 19 per cent since 2015, reaching more than 4,000 prisoners at the beginning of 2021 and exceeding 100 per cent of capacity, according to official statistics.
At the same time, the number of guards has dropped by 18 per cent in the Scandinavian nation of 5.8 million people, where prisoners with less than five years usually serve in open prisons.
We will lack as many as 1,000 seats in the prison park by 2025,” Justice Minister Nick Hækkerup said in a statement.
Kosovo had 1,642 prisoners in 2020, or 97 per cent of its capacity, according to the World Prisons Report at London University. /fdesouche. com
