"All bureaucratic, administrative, technical and planning procedures to set up the CPR will begin after the signature of this agreement," said the President of the Province of Trento Maurizio Fugatti.

"We expect to be able to begin during 2026," Fugatti told a press conference after the signature of the agreement on October 24 with Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi to open the repatriation center in Trento.

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Facility estimated to cost province up to two million euros

Building the facility is expected to cost the province an estimated "one and a half, two million" euros and the area where the building will stand "must be bought", while "the personnel, management and future maintenance" of the structure will be paid for "by the State", added Fugatti.

The center is expected to be built in a specific area of Trento "because it is a public security location and so it must be close to the main roads, the central police department, police forces and all the appropriate structures to manage a facility of this kind. We have selected a specific zone," identified as a building in the area of Maso Visintainer, where a number of families are currently housed, he explained.

The area is located "on a corner between the Brennero highway and Trento's ring road", he went on to say.

"That building will be torn down and the necessary facilities for the CPR will be provided," Fugatti said, adding that the interior ministry will be in charge of management. The facility will be built to accommodate 25 people and "the agreement provides for the center to reserve two-thirds of places available to migrants who are the recipients of expulsion decrees, identified in the area of Trento," he noted.

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'CPR in Trento could become a model,' Piantedosi says

Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi called the CPR project "very important, not just because it serves a very significant area, the autonomous province of Trento, but also because we think we can turn this initiative into a model that can be replicated in other parts of the national territory."

The minister explained that the government is trying to "boost" the CPR network. "It has become a European objective to boost repatriations. People deemed a danger to public security are confined in these places," noted Piantedosi, adding that CPRs are designed to hold people who are "in a condition of irregularity" as well as those deemed as "posing a danger to public security."

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'Accord should allow a reduction in expenses'

According to Piantedosi, the agreement should also allow a reduction on the cost of distributing migrants located in the area around Trento across the entire national territory.

In 2025, 61 people were taken from Trentino to CPRs in other locations, reported the minister.

"CPRs work. They are perfectly compatible with national and European legislation. Detention is a deprivation of personal freedom that requires validation by a judge," according to Constitutional law, noted Piantedosi.

Overall, "the repatriation rate has on average reached peaks of 50 percent in our country," said the interior minister, announcing the commitment to set up another CPR in the area of the city of Bolzano near Trento.

"We are working. There is a very important proposal there too now," he noted, calling the plan "very smart."

After finalizing the project in Trento, "we will now focus" on the plan to set up a CPR in Bolzano, with a proposal that will be outlined by mid-2026, he concluded.

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