The case concerns a national of Senegal who arrived in Italy in May 2017, when he was still a minor, after spending four months in a camp in Libya. The Tribunal rejected his application for refugee status on the basis that his story was not credible and considered that the requirements for subsidiary protection were not present. Additionally, the Tribunal considered that the integration of the applicant was not sufficient to grant humanitarian protection.

The Supreme Court held that the Tribunal did not consider the violence the applicant was subject to in the detention camp in Libya and that it excluded the presence of vulnerability despite the applicant being a minor when he arrived in Italy. The Tribunal therefore did not take into account all relevant facts for humanitarian protection. The Court therefore referred the case back to the Tribunal of Catanzaro for further assessment.