
The Italian media write that an elderly Albanian woman tried to abandon her minor grandson in Rimni, the elderly woman (still unidentified) had come from Albania with a very specific purpose: to abandon her minor grandson in Italy and then return to her homeland .
However, the Italian authorities made it possible to identify the grandmother, detain her and refuse to cross the border, together with the little grandson. The Albanian intended to abandon her grandson in order to benefit from the regulations for unaccompanied minors.
However, the police investigations made it possible to unmask the real intentions of the grandmother and her return to Albania followed by the minor". But two days later, the woman and the boy attempted the same operation in the port of Bari, where they were refused again.
The elderly woman and her nephew intended, in all likelihood, to exploit a specific law in force in Italy, which, within the reception policies, to support the activities of the reception of minors by the Municipalities, was known to all unaccompanied minors the possibility of entering the country, services, financed by the National Fund for asylum policies and services.
The same law also provides that, upon reaching the age of majority, young adults seeking asylum stay in secondary reception centers of municipalities (Sai) until the determination of the request for international protection.
In November 2022, in Italy there were about 20 thousand unaccompanied minors cared for by the reception system, according to data available from the Ministry of Social Policies. A significant number of them (about 25%) come from Ukraine: followed, in the ranking of countries of origin, by Egypt, Tunisia and Albania./ Ilrestodelcarlino.it