ROME: Italy´s highest court has ordered the state to compensate migrants held in port for 10 days in 2018 by then interior minister Matteo Salvini prompting outrage on Friday from the government.

The case was brought by Eritreans detained along with dozens of other migrants on the Diciotti military ship after Salvini — who heads an anti-immigration party — refused authorisation to disembark in an Italian port while he tried to get other European states to take them. The Court of Cassation ruled on Thursday that Rome must pay compensation and instructed another court to determine the sum.