A Catania probe into Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for allegedly kidnapping migrants aboard the Sea-Watch3 NGO rescue ship in January has been shelved.
About the case, Salvini said that it wasn’t considered a kidnapping by the court but simply a request for order and rules. Salvini has closed Italy’s ports to NGO-run migrant rescue ships.
Salvini added that the decision confirms that we can close the ports “to pirate ships.”
The cases against Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli, who had stood in solidarity with Salvini, were also dismissed.
The Catania court found that the Sea-Watch3 ship “entered Italian waters unilaterally”.
Via ANSA /La Repubblica
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