Charges of kidnapping and dereliction of duty were brought against Matteo Salvini after he blocked a rescue boat in 2019Judges in Sicily have acquitted Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini of charges of kidnapping and dereliction of duty after he refused to let a Spanish migrant rescue ship dock in an Italian port in 2019, keeping the people onboard at sea for days.The case dates back to a time when Salvini, head of the far-right political party Lega, served as the interior minister during the first government of the then prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, from 2018-19. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/20/italian-deputy-pm-acquitted-of-charges-over-refusal-to-let-migrant-ship-dock
Author : Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Sam Jones in Madrid
Publish date : 2024-12-20 20:29:00
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Italian deputy PM acquitted of charges over refusal to let migrant ship dock
