The sentence with which the United Sections of the Cassation accepted the appeal of a group of Eritrean migrants, who in 2018 had been held for six days on board the Diciotti ship By decision of the then Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, forcing the government to compensate the damage procured, is “Basically irrelevant” On the current management of irregular immigration from North Africa and on the issues connected to this, from the assignment of the landing ports to the ships of the NGOs operating in the central Mediterranean to relations with the main countries of departure and transit, primarily Tunisia and Libya. The day after the sentence that rekindled the clash between the government and the judiciary, this is the reading of the provision that is given to the Interior Ministry, on the basis of the technical analysis carried out by the experts. “Absolute tranquility” is the message that comes from the Ministry of the Interior where it is observed, first of all, that from the Consulta «they have limited themselves to affirming a principle, however not acceptable.
But the concrete determination of a possible compensation in favor of the individual applicant hosted aboard the Diciotti ship is remitted to the Court of Appeal “. It means that another judge will have to express himself. Therefore, beyond the statement of principle, the Ministry will follow the question to see “what the practical outcome of these quantifications will be in relation to the alleged, possible, damage that would have received migrants for having been hosted on board an Italian military ship, where they were cared for and refreshed following a rescue that occurred in international waters of non -Italian competence where they were on board makeshift boats at the mercy of the waves”. “The questionability of the conclusions of principle to which the United Sections are added” always according to the Interior Ministry, it would instead be “confirmed in the fact that this pronouncement has been reached after the cause presented by migrants had been rejected at first instance and on appeal. And also in the Cassation the rejection was requested by the same attorney general, precisely as evidence that the applicant’s thesis is at least questionable ». In the sentence, the United Sections said that “it certainly must be excluded that the refusal of the authorization to land migrants rescued at sea, protracted for ten days, can be considered as a political act subtracted from jurisdictional control”. And also, the supreme judges still say, the landing of refugees must be organized “in the shortest time reasonably possible”.