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The Palermo court has acquitted the leader of the League Matteo Salvini of the charges of kidnapping and refusal of official documents at the trial for the affair of the ship of the Spanish NGO Open Arms.
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December 20, 2024 – 7.53pm
(Keystone-ATS) According to the accusation, the deputy prime minister and minister of transport, in August 2019, when he held the position of minister of the Interior, unlawfully prevented the crew of the Catalan vessel from disembarking 147 migrants rescued at sea on Lampedusa.
The reading of the device was greeted by applause from politicians and supporters who came to express solidarity with Salvini. The minister hugged his girlfriend Fracesca Verdini for a long time, who was present in the chamber. For Salvini the Prosecutor's Office had requested a six-year prison sentence while the civil parties had requested a sentence of one million euros as compensation for damages.
As soon as he learned the sentence, Matteo Salvini clenches his fists in a sign of victory, hugs whoever comes his way, looks around and looks for his partner Francesca Verdini. She is in tears, she reaches him: and they indulge in a long embrace. The lawyer Giulia Bongiorno is moved. “You were all good,” says Salvini.
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