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Italian court aquits Vice Premier Salvini in migrant rescue ship case

A Sicilian court on Friday acquitted Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard the Open Arms rescue ship in 2019, when he was interior minister. 

Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini at the Bunker Courtroom in Palermo, Sicily, on December 20, 2024. © Alberto Pizzoli, AFP

Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini at the Bunker Courtroom in Palermo, Sicily, on December 20, 2024. © Alberto Pizzoli, AFP

A court in Sicily Friday found Vice Premier Matteo Salvini not guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship when he was interior minister.

The court dropped all the charges against Salvini in relation an incident in 2019, when he refused to allow the migrants to leave the Open Arms rescue ship at Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa.

Verdicts in Italy are only considered final once all appeals are exhausted, a process that can take years.

Now transport minister in Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government, Salvini has always defended himself, saying he acted to protect Italy’s borders.

(AP)

Author: Editors Desk

Source: France 24

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