The world’s richest man Elon Musk on Tuesday criticised the decision by Rome judges not to validate the detention of a second group of migrants taken to new Italian-run centres in Albania.
As a result of the decision, the seven migrants, who are citizens of Egypt and Bangladesh, were brought to the Italian port of Brindisi early on Tuesday.
On October 18, the same court failed to validate the detention of 12 migrants who were part of the first group to be taken to Albania under the government’s controversial agreement to run migrant-centres on Albanian territory.
“These judges need to go,” said Tesla owner Musk via X on a user’s post on the news of the suspension of the validation of the detention of seven migrants decided by the immigration section of the Court of Rome, which also referred the case to the European Court of Justice.
Musk was a big support of Donald Trump’s successful US Presidential election campaign and he looks set to hold a powerful position in the new administration.