The Baobab Experience
migrant-support association said Thursday that 42 of the asylum
seekers who were held up on the Diciotti Coast Guard ship for 10
days after Interior Minister Matteo Salvini refused to let them
disembark are ready to take legal action.
"The migrants have delegated the lawyers who work with Baobab
to evaluate whether there are the conditions to stand as civil
plaintiffs in an eventual criminal trial and to present a civil
suit for illegitimate detention aboard a ship," Giovanna
Cavallo, the head of Baobab Experience's legal team, told a news
conference.
Salvini is under investigation for alleged kidnapping after
he refused to allow over 100 migrants saved by the Coast Guard
to get off the Diciotti during a 10-day stand-off with the EU.
In the end Catholic bishops agreed to take 100 while Ireland
and Albania said they would take 20 each.
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