(ANSA) - Turin, July 9 - No on can stop migrant ships docking
in Italy because the 1951 Geneva convention on refugees lays
down the right to non-refoulement," Turin Chief Prosecutor
Armando Spataro said Monday.
Spataro was speaking as he illustrated his office's new
guidelines against hate crimes.
"Taking an absurd argument, if a migrant ship arrived in
Turin at the Murazzi (docking point) on the Po and someone tried
to stop whoever was on it from landing, I would start a probe.
No one can stop a migrant boat from docking".
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has stopped NGO migrant
ships from docking in Italy and wants to extend the ban to navy
ships of other nations.
No one can stop migrant ships docking
Non-refoulement principle enshrined in 1951 Geneva convention