Expulsion of the most wanted Safet Rustemi: the Aliens Office knew he had to appear

The Aliens Office knew that the Albanian criminal Safet Rustemi was due to appear in court, his lawyer Sven Mary said Wednesday evening in a VRT broadcast.

The Office confirmed Monday that it expelled the 31-year-old in June 2017. The office of the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration maintains that the information has not arrived. Theo Francken had already rejected on the justice and the police the responsibility of the expulsion Wednesday morning. When the suspect was released in June 2017 after the payment of a bond, the prison registry forwarded the decision to the Aliens Office, says the lawyer. It was stated in that decision that Safet Rustemi was to be present at the next pleading, he added.

Ms. Mary also referred to a letter that he had sent to the Office informing him that the The suspect's family was prepared to pay for a plane ticket to Tirana and had previously explained by telephone that a trial was to take place. "To say now that they did not know is to lie," insists the criminal.

According to him, the prosecutor could have asked the Office to issue a provisional residence permit pending trial. [19659004] "Everyone knows where he is, he has an official position in a city in Albania," said Mary, who says the case is not isolated. The lawyer states that he is aware of 12 persons who have been returned to a Schengen country outside the Schengen area since mid-April and released after the payment of a security deposit, provided that they are present at next act of procedure

"If it is stated that a person must remain available, the Aliens Office takes into account," responds the office of the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Theo Francken. "But if this information of justice does not arrive, they do what the law foresees with a person staying illegally, namely to organize his repatriation."

The closed centers are not alternative prisons, added the Spokesperson for the Secretary of State