Belgium returns 51 Albanian asylum seekers

Belgium returned 51 people from Albania who hade demanded political asylum. The General State Police Director warned that whoever will violate the EU residence permit will be returned and now they are easily identified, because their names are on the police database.

“Certainly that we are continuing with these operations. We guarantee the Albanian citizens that whoever will violate the EU residence rules will be returned to Albania”, Burgaj declared.

The head of the Belgian Police, who led the operation for returning the Albanians, considered as unacceptable the fact that 70 Albanians are demanding political asylum in Belgium. According to him, most of them have lost their job in Greece and are demanding political asylum in Belgium.

From January to August 2012 there has been a dramatic increase of the asylum requests in Sweden. 1043 people have asked asylum during this period.

The Swedish authorities have issued an interior order that will return all Albanian asylum seekers within 6 months, since most of them are of not threat and their asylum requests is purely economic.