
Many media outlets in Italy, France, Hungary and Germany are dealing with the story of Rexhino Abazaj, the 25-year-old Albanian who is called Gino for short. Rexhino was born in Albania but moved to Italy with his family when he was only three years old. He attended school in Italy, grew up there, had his first job there and has a special passion: politics.
He is anti-fascist. But while his parents and family received Italian citizenship, Gino did not benefit from it because one day, he opposed the forced eviction from the apartment of a woman, he a foreigner, she Italian: it is worth noting, who was unable to pay the rent. The result: a criminal complaint was filed against him. And that was enough to make his life difficult.
The case would be closed and Gino would never be punished for that protest against the eviction from the apartment. But his family received Italian citizenship, while he did not. He, who does not even remember Albania, remained the only foreigner in his family. The current situation The halls followed Gino, born in Albania and raised in Italy, because of the protests.
On September 30, the Supreme Court in France will decide whether to extradite Gino to Germany, a decision that has so far been made by the Court of Appeal in France. Gino, after not receiving Italian citizenship, left for Finland to live and continue his anti-fascist activism. In 2023, together with left-wing activists, he went to Budapest for the “day of honor”, where right-wing activists from all over Europe gather.
There were clashes between the two currents, the extreme left and the extreme right. Many ended up in hospitals, while the Albanian Gino, together with the MEP Ilaria Salis, was sentenced by the Hungarian courts to 25 years in prison. He was arrested and released in Finland. With the hope that he would find justice in Paris and France does not extradite political refugees, he went there, while Hungary continued to be looking for him to serve his sentence.
But unfortunately for Gino, one of the militants beaten in Budapest was German. And a German court also asks France to extradite Gino, to try him in Germany. France cannot say “no” to Germany. So Gino is arrested and his trial begins in France. If the extradition procedure is taken into account, Germany may decide to take him to Hungary.
Because just a month ago, on August 19, France responded positively to the request for the extradition of Rexhino "Gino" Abazaj to Germany. And after appeals and a sensational turn of events, Gino will end up on trial without any guarantee that he will not be extradited to Hungary. On September 30 in Paris, left-wing groups plan to hold a protest in defense of Rexhino Gino Abazaj, asking the French Supreme Court not to extradite the Albanian to Germany.