26As the German Government has pointed out, the second sentence of Article 16(1) of Directive 2008/115 is not couched in identical terms in all the language versions. This provision states, in the German version, that, ‘[w]here a Member State does not have specialised detention facilities and prison accommodation must be used, the third-country nationals in detention shall be kept separated from ordinary prisoners’. In the other language versions, the provision refers not to the absence of specialised detention facilities, but to the fact that a Member State ‘cannot’ provide accommodation for those third-country nationals in such facilities.
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