One of the migrants Italy's top court
ordered to receive compensation from the government for stopping
them getting off the Diciotti coastguard ship in 2018 said
Friday he didn't want compensation but justice.
"I wasn't interested in compensation but in ascertaining the
responsibility of those who implemented those decisions: it was
an injustice, they deprived us of our freedom and the ability to
ask for asylum without us having committed any crime", the
Eritrean migrant, assisted by the lawyer Alessandro Ferrara,
commented on the decision of the supreme Court of Cassation on
compensation.
The group of Eritreans was prevented from disembarking by the
closed ports policy of then interior minister Matteo Salvini,
now deputy premier and transport minister, who has called the
Cassation verdict a "disgraceful" intervention into the
political field.
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