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.
30 Dec 2020
A 21-year-old Italian man in the city of Palermo has been arrested after he threw three Molotov cocktails at a local Carabinieri station following a fine he received for breaking Wuhan coronavirus lockdown rules.
The incident took place over the night of December 26th and the early morning of the 27th and came just hours after the 21-year-old had been handed a fine for breaking coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
According to a report from newspaper
Il Giornale, the man had travelled to a petrol station after getting the fine and filled up bottles which he used as Molotov cocktails against the police station.