PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – A verdict is expected today in the Open Arms trial in Palermo in which League leader and deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, is accused of kidnapping and refusal to perform official acts for preventing for days the disembarkation of 147 migrants rescued by the Spanish NGO in August 2019. For Salvini, then interior minister, the prosecution asked for six years in prison. This morning, in the bunker room of Pagliarelli prison, after “brief replies” by prosecutors to the October 18 argument by Salvini’s lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, judges will enter the council chamber to decide the fate of Salvini, who arrived in the Sicilian capital last night. “I feel a bit like in Venditti’s song ‘Notte prima degli esami,’ however, I am absolutely happy and proud of what I have done: it is only the first degree sentence and even in case of conviction I remind everyone that there are two more degrees of judgment, I say this especially to those who wish me jail time,” Salvini said yesterday during a live social broadcast.
(ITALPRESS).
– Photo: Photogram Agency –
(ITALPRESS).
