How much do CPR really cost us in Albania? You could answer by moving the moral and ethical theme, but these days we are returning to talk about money. This is because Actionid and Unibari have calculated the CPR management and activity cost in Albania.
The Albania operation is defined as
The most expensive, inhuman and useless tool in the history of Italian migratory policies.
Other than a model for the European Union according to the independent international organization.
How many million does the CPR operation costs us in Albania?
For the first time Actonoid And Unibary They reconstructed the actual costs of the setting of the CPR in Albania. What emerges is that, only for the construction, including the non -housing structure of Shengjin, they were spent 74.2 million euros: over 153,000 euros per available place.
You can compare with the CPR of Porto Empedocle, which cost 1 million euros per 50 seats, or just over 21,000 euros per seat.
But the costs do not end here: in addition to the construction ones, the management costs. The Medihospes manager was paid 570,000 eurosequivalent to 114,000 euros per day for 5 days (the only operational between October and December 2024) for the detention of 20 people, all freed within a few hours.
Finally, to the account are added the expenses for hospitality and catering of the police forces for those five days of activity, for a total of 528,000 euros.
In short, this is not the billion euros With which Schlein, Bonelli and Renzi criticized the Meloni government last year, but still remains a high expenditure, of about 680 million total divided into five years. On balancebetween the repatriation rate to the historical minimum and the expenses incurred, the operation is a economic failure.
Schlein’s attack: “Meloni apologizes”
The opposition reaction focuses on the economic aspect that emerged from the Actionaid and Unibari study. It does it for example Elly Schleinwhich through social channels writes:
Giorgia Meloni must apologize to the Italians, because the numbers relating to the costs of his illegal Albania operation are an insult also to those millions of people who today find themselves in difficulty.
The secretary of the Democratic Party points out that it is absurd to spend similar figures after for years the current majority has overflowed to 35 euros per day for the reception. “The daily figure spent on the centers in Albania, or 114,000 euros per day, is almost five times the average income of an Italian”.
Schlein recalls that from the beginning they had denounced the crazy costs of this “illegal and inhuman project, pure propaganda on the skin of the most fragile but paid by the pockets of the Italians”. Eight months after Giorgia Meloni who shouted “they will work!”, The project, however, seems bankrupt.
The human cost
From the opposition and from the bottom, however, there are also criticism of the most inhuman aspect of detention centers, such as those in Albania and Italy.
Pierfrancesco Majorinoresponsible for migratory policies of the secretariat of the Democratic Party, defines the Albania operation as one of the most inhuman migratory policies ever adopted by Italy. “We are faced with the most ineffective and brutal intervention that has ever been implemented – he comments – maximum injury of human rights and maximum waste of public money”.
From Baobab Experiencean association of volunteers/EE activists who offer support to migrant people, the attack on all politics is hard. We refer not only to the actions of the Meloni government, but also to the media and politics that “scream to the waste scandal, the irrationality of the project, to its ineffectiveness”, but that do not take the point. They want to reiterate that the CPR problem is the CPR itself. To use their words:
In our opinion, the problem of a concentration camp is that it is a concentration camp, a cage in which innocent human beings lock themselves.
Perhaps they will also be able to workbut how? Only in Italy are there more than one case of suicide or attempted suicide per day, presence of Focola di Scabbia And other diseases, use of psychotropic drugs to quell human beings who ask for rights, such as not eating food with mold and worms.
And prohibit inspections in Italian centers, as stated in the anti-ingressing circular of the Minister of the Interior Planate, can hide but not to delete what is happening within these centers that have very little “working”.
