Suck it up, buttercup.
The mayor of Naples said a nuclear-powered submarine that took part in missile strikes against suspected Syrian chemical weapons sites should not have cruised through waters near the city, but Italian military officials said he has no jurisdiction over the matter.
The Virginia-class submarine USS John Warner passed through the Bay of Naples three miles from shore in late March after participating in NATO’s Dynamic Manta exercise.
That prompted Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris to write the port authority complaining that the submarine violated a 2015 decree establishing a denuclearized zone in city limits.
“The fact that it is the same submarine (involved in the Syria attack) further reinforces the rightness of the order,” de Magistris told the Italian news outlet ANSA earlier this week. “Ships of nuclear propulsion or carrying nuclear weapons are not welcome in the port of Naples and, therefore, they are not allowed to transit or stay.”
Rear Adm. Arturo Faraone, head of the city’s port authority, told the mayor the city has no jurisdiction over foreign naval vessels in territorial waters. That is the Italian defense ministry’s purview, he said.