Judges at the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Italy could not be held liable for the actions of the Libyan Coast Guard, rejecting a case brought by a group of migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea in a fatal boat sinking in 2017.
The Strasbourg court declared the case inadmissible, finding Italy did not have “effective control” of the expanse of waters off the coast of Tripoli where a small ship carrying some 150 people sank in 2017.
