Italian Decision to Permit US Attack UAVs Contradicts Constitution
Sputnik – February 27, 2016
In an interview with Sputnik, military expert Antonio Mazzeo described Rome’s decision to allow armed US drones to fly from the Sigonella military base in Sicily to Libya as a gross violation of the Italian Constitution.
According to him, the move will further add to the militarization of the Sigonella base.
He said that even the deployment of unarmed Global Hawk drones to Sicily nine years ago, was not quite in line with the nation’s constitutional provisions limiting the use of Italian military facilities to self-defense, given that their task is to detect targets for bombers.
“Even if they do not carry missiles, they can be called a weapon of attack, destruction, and the first strike,” Mazzeo said. Article 11 of the 1948 Italian Constitution states that “Italy repudiates war as an instrument offending the liberty of the peoples and as a means for settling international disputes.”
His remarks came after Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti confirmed earlier this week that the United States had been given permission to use the Sigonella base to carry out drone strikes on Daesh targets in Libya.
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