This week, the first group of migrants intercepted in Italian waters arrived in Albania as part of Rome’s controversial scheme to process asylum seekers outside the EU. The migrants will be held in pre-repatriation detention centres, known as CPRs. Such centres, which are managed by private companies, have existed in Italy for several years and are severely criticised by human rights defenders, who say migrants there are mistreated. Our Italy correspondent Natalia Mendoza reports, with Tommaso Marro, Simone Bauducco and Charlotte Davan Wetton.
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