The Court of Cassation definitively acquitted the two migrants who on 10 July 2018, after being rescued from the shipwreck and boarded on the Vos Thalassa ship, opposed their immediate refoulement through their return to Libya. The Supreme Court held that their resistance to illegitimate repatriation is not punishable, thereby disavowing the doctrine of “closed ports” adopted by the Minister of the Interior at the time, Matteo Salvini.
“Already at the time of the facts we had considered that this strategy, based on the failure to indicate the safe harbor useful for the disembarkation of migrants rescued at sea, in addition to being inhuman was also adopted in violation of the Constitution of international laws and treaties” comments the Coordination by AreaDg. Which concludes: “It is to be hoped that, through the confirmation and strengthening of the jurisprudential orientation affirmed today, these practices will never be repeated and instead we enter a new season in which human rights are not recognized only to survivors of the immense migratory tragedy we are experiencing ».
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