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Gregoretti case, pending the decision of the Gup of Catania. Salvini: “I risk the second trial”

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CATANIA – The decision of the preliminary hearing in Catania on the Gregoretti case is expected tomorrow. The Gup Nunzio Sarpietro will retire to the council chamber and then should read, in the Bicocca bunker hall, his decision on the request for indictment for kidnapping for the then Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini for delays in landing, in July 2019, of 131 migrants from the Italian Coast Guard ship in the port of Augusta, in Syracuse. There are three school hypotheses: a decree of indictment, with the setting of the first hearing of the eventual trial, a sentence of non-prosecution or an ordinance that provides for a further preliminary phase.

For the delay in disembarking migrants from the Open Arms ship, the Gup of Palermo, Lorenzo Jannelli, on 17 April sent Salvini to trial, setting the first hearing for next 15 September before the second criminal section of the Court. The District Prosecutor of Catania reiterated to the Gup to issue a sentence of no place to proceed because, his thesis expressed in the classroom by the Prosecutor Andrea Bonomo, in the landing of migrants from ship Gregoretti the then Minister of the Interior “did not violate any national and international convention “, his choices were” shared by the government “and his position” does not integrate the details of the crime of kidnapping “because” the fact does not exist “.

A reconstruction disputed by the civil parties who ask for the trial for Salvini: AccoglieRete, Legambiente, Arci and a family of migrants who was on board the Gregoretti. According to the lawyer of Legambiente, Daniela Ciancimino, the former minister has “illegitimately detained 131 people on board”, and must go to trial for kidnapping also for the “suffering suffered by the migrants amassed on the Gregoretti ship”.

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For the defense, represented by the lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, “the criminal action against Salvini should not even have begun, because his was an unquestionable political act” because, he argued, for the “principle of the separation of powers and the decisions adopted in the national interest they are impenetrable and cannot be contested in court “.

Salvini’s words

“It seems to me that Italy is the only country of the 27 of the European Union to send a minister to trial for a government act. I looked for documentation, but I did not find it in any other European country, a minister brought to trial for having done what he had promised in the election campaign. If this is not a political process, tell me what it is. ” Lega leader Matteo Salvini said, meeting journalists at Palazzo Lombardia about the Gregoretti trial that will see him tomorrow in the courtroom in Catania.

“I’m not angry with the judges, but with left-wing politicians who every time they lose elections try to win them in a court – he added -. I’m going calmly to Catania tomorrow and to Palermo on 15 September ».

“I’m sorry to lose yet another day stolen from children, family and work to be in a courtroom to answer for my duty as a minister: to defend Italy and the borders – concludes the number one of the Northern League -. This year we risk reaching the record of landings in recent years. We cannot afford it, so I hope to go towards a justice for which the law is the same for everyone and not a political court as unfortunately has often happened in the past. Wait, I’m not afraid. On 15 September I will be in Palermo to answer for what I have done with pride and which I will do again as soon as I return to the government ».

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