De Benedetti on trial for calling Salvini an anti-semite Worst, anti-semitic and xenophobic, publisher called League head 04 Maggio 2021 CUNEO, MAY 4 - Businessman and media proprietor Carlo De Benedetti went on trial in Cuneo Tuesday for calling anti-migrant former interior minister and nationalist league party leader Matteo Salvini an anti-semite. The former liberal La Repubblica daily publisher, who last year set up a small new left-leaning newspaper called Domani (Tomorrow), called Salvini "the worst, anti-semitic and xenophobic" at a media and new media conference at Dogliani near Cuneo in May 2018, when Salvini had just started a stint as minister marked by closing ports to NGO run migrant rescue