Open Arms, the judgment of December 20th. Salvini: “Don’t scare me”

The verdict in the Open Arms trial, attended by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Transport Minister, is expected on Friday December 20th. Matteo Salviniwho is accused of kidnapping and evasion of service for detaining 147 migrants for several days on board the ship Open Arms in August 2019, when he was interior minister. This was announced by the President of the Court Roberto Murgiaat the end of the defense’s speech in the Pagliarelli bunker courtroom in Palermo. In recent hearings, the prosecution asked that Salvini be sentenced to six years in prison, while the defense called for his acquittal because “the facts of the case do not exist.” “My speech will be very well documented: I will show that Open Arms had countless, countless, countless opportunities to disembark the migrants, but resisted countless, countless, countless rejections,” said Salvini’s lawyer Giulia Bongiorno at the beginning of her speech In the Pagliarelli bunker courtroom in Palermo, she emphasized that Open Arms “had many solutions” to disembark the migrants.

“The safe harbor,” explained Bongiorno, “was handed over two hours after the NGO Open Arms entered Italian territorial waters.” The circumstance was “noted in the ship’s log.” Bongiorno emphasized in his speech that “Italy had asked for a simple email with data already available to disembark the migrants,” but “Open Arms did not respond.” Who took action?” “Italy asks Open Arms to send the email Mail” with reports on the simple plight of immigrants, a simple procedure to enable disembarkation, as had already happened on August 15th for a group of immigrants. In the following days, Bongiorno reconstructed, the NGO changed its strategy and refused to send simple certificates like those sent a few hours earlier that had allowed a group of migrants to disembark. “Italy was on its knees” in front of the Spanish NGO, the lawyer stressed, reiterating that there was maximum availability to offer an immediate disembarkation channel and that it did not go through the Viminale, then led by Matteo Salvini: “Three lines were enough out of.” . All the migrants had to do was write the word “Disagio” to disembark. But they decided otherwise. Why?” she concluded.

Salvini’s comment was harsh: “We are in the hands of judges engaged in left-wing politics, pro-migrants, pro-NGOs who are trying to overturn the laws of the state. This part of the judges, not all of them.” “Run for office if you don’t like something the government is doing,” explained the Lega leader. “On December 20, the Friday before Christmas,” he stressed, “I will find out before the judges of Palermo whether I am guilty of kidnapping for blocking the landing of illegal immigrants or if I am simply a person “who did her job” defended his country”. “I count on reality and not fantasy to be taken into account. If you believe that the borders of a state are something that has been overcome and can be overcome, do not scare me in any way,” concluded Salvini of a part of the judges. “So,” he concluded, “we will meet again here in wonderful Palermo.”

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