Published on December 20, 2024 at 8:11 p.m. / Modified on December 20, 2024 at 10:00 p.m.
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“Thank you for your solidarity, Elon Musk. Defending the Italian borders was my duty, and I am proud of what I accomplished.” On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini responded on the X platform to the American billionaire who considered it “crazy to judge” the politician “for having defended Italy”. Accused of having kidnapped several dozen migrants, Matteo Salvini was acquitted on Friday evening in the Open Arms trial. Even if he had been convicted, the result would have been the same: the procedure united the entire European extreme right behind the Milanese. It strengthens the cause of the leaders of the Patriote pour l'Europe group, gathered around Salvini in Brussels earlier in the week.
At their side, Matteo Salvini, federal secretary of the Legathis far-right party in the coalition in power on the peninsula, constantly repeats that it is guilty of “having defended Italy” against “illegal immigrants” and “mass immigration”. He thus hammers home the political line shared by his European allies who transformed him into a martyr for the cause, posing with him and brandishing his face on black t-shirts, parodying a wanted poster.
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