Rome, 7 Mar. (LaPresse) – The unified sections of the Court of Cassation upheld the appeal filed by a group of migrants who, from 16 to 25 August 2018, were prevented by former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini from disembarking from the Coast Guard's Diciotti ship that had rescued them at sea in Catania. The request concerned the condemnation of the Italian government to compensate the non-pecuniary damage caused in the refugees by the deprivation of liberty. The panel referred the quantification of the damage in fact to the judge of merit, but condemned the Government. ‘The Government's action,’ reads the operative part, “even if motivated by political reasons, can never be considered exempt from judicial review when it goes beyond the limits imposed on it by the Constitution and the law, especially when the fundamental rights of citizens (or foreigners), constitutionally protected, are at stake”.
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