A two-year-old sentence by
the European Court of Human Rights on Italy's illegal detention
of three Tunisian migrants is cited in the file Agrigento
prosecutors have sent to Palermo colleagues on the alleged
kidnapping by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of 177 Eritrean
migrants on board the Diciotti coast guard ship, legal sources
said Tuesday.
In the 2016 ruling, Italy was found guilty of unlawfully
holding the three at a migrant centre on Lampedusa and
subsequently on board two ships.
Salvini is also facing charges of illegal detention and abuse
of office, among other things, in the case where he refused to
let the migrants land unless the EU first said it would take
them.
Most of the migrants were eventually taken by Italian
bishops, with 20 taken by both Ireland and Albania.
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