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Salvini on Trial for Refusing to Let Migrant Taxi NGO Dock in Italy in 2019
Salvini on Trial for Refusing to Let Migrant Taxi NGO Dock in Italy in 2019
PALERMO, Italy (AP) — Italy’s right-wing former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, went on trial Saturday charged with kidnapping for refusing in 2019 to allow a Spanish migrant rescue ship to dock in Sicily, keeping the people onboard at sea for days.
It is the first trial to go ahead against Salvini for his actions preventing migrant landings while he served as interior minister from 2018-2019 in an uneasy coalition between the populist 5-Star Movement and his right-wing League.
