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Thursday, November 01, 2012

[Belgium, Albania] Balkan Insight - Albanian Asylum Seekers Repatriated From Belgium

A group of 51 Albanians who applied for asylum in Belgium were returned to Tirana Airport on Wednesday.

25.10.2012. “Similar operations will continue and all those Albanian citizens who break the visa-free travel rules into the Schengen area will be repatriated and barred from entering the EU for five years,” Albania police chief Hysni Burgaj said.

The migrants were returned, escorted by Albanian police in a joint operation with Belgian authorities. Tirana has also agreed to pay the costs of their repatriation.

[Picture from the same article - copyright balkaninsight.com, 25/10/2012]

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