(ANSA) - Rome, March 10 - The seizure of a planned satellite
communications ground station at a US Navy facility near the
Sicilian town of Niscemi was ordered to protect the environment
and health of residents, the supreme Court of Cassation said in
a written verdict upholding the measure Thursday.
The seizure of the planned Mobile User Objective System
(MUOS), which would have entailed placing some 46
telecommunications antennas, was ordered in April 2015 after a
Palermo regional administrative court (TAR) upheld an appeal by
locals against its construction.
The order was subsequently confirmed by a Catania tribunal
the same month.
Supreme Court upholds seizure of US MUOS station at Niscemi
Site impounded to protect environment and health, judges say