May 16, 2021 07:01:02 am
A judge in Italy’s Catania in the Sicily region on Friday ordered that Italian Senator Matteo Salvini will not stand trial for refusing to allow migrants to disembark from a coastguard ship in July 2019. The right-wing leader had been accused of kidnapping the migrants.
From June 2018 to September 2019, Salvini, the leader of far-right party Lega Nord, was Italy’s deputy prime minister and minister of the interior. During this time, as part of his “closed ports” policy, he blocked several boats carrying migrants from docking in Italy, accusing the NGOs operating these boats of encouraging human smuggling.
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