Italy returned migrants to Libya illegally-court

[microrobert]

Italy returned migrants to Libya illegally-court

Italy violated human rights rules when it sent a group of Eritrean and Somali migrants intercepted at sea back to Libya in 2009, the European Court of Human Rights said on Thursday.

The court also ruled that Italy had breached rules prohibiting expulsions of whole groups.

It ordered Italy to pay 15,000 euros ($20,000) to each of the plaintiffs and 1,575 euros to the group as a whole to cover the case's costs. ($1 = 0.7511 euros)

http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5E8DN99820120223

[Libertas]

It's a small price to pay to get rid of them as long as they don't try and come back.

[derLowe]

Italy returned migrants to Libya illegally-court

Italy violated human rights rules when it sent a group of Eritrean and Somali migrants intercepted at sea back to Libya in 2009, the European Court of Human Rights said on Thursday.

The court also ruled that Italy had breached rules prohibiting expulsions of whole groups.

It ordered Italy to pay 15,000 euros ($20,000) to each of the plaintiffs and 1,575 euros to the group as a whole to cover the case's costs. ($1 = 0.7511 euros)

http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5E8DN99820120223

Without due process these people come to another country and take up resources that the local population has paid for. Perhaps a trip to the bottom of the sea would have been cheaper.

If I was a Italian I would find this payment unacceptable, after all it would have been taken from my taxes. It is basically paying people to stay out of Italy.