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Gregoretti, “There was no kidnapping” and the prosecutor asks for Salvini to be acquitted

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Matteo Salvini in the landing of migrants from ship Gregoretti “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 it does not exist “.

This is the line of the Catania Public Prosecutor’s Office which, with Pm Andrea Bonomo, in the bunker classroom of the Bicocca prison in front of the Gup Nunzio Sarpietro, reiterated the request not to proceed against the former Minister of the Interior for whom he is The preliminary hearing for indictment is in progress for the delay in disembarking from the Gregoretti ship of 131 migrants in July 2019 in Augusta, in the Syracuse area.

According to the Public Prosecutor of Catania “the three-day wait cannot be considered an illegitimate deprivation of liberty” and “there is no obligation for the State to land immediately”. Furthermore, “the political directives had changed” and the Interior Ministry had expressed the desire to assign the Pos and “do it quickly”, justifying “the administrative time” to implement the disembarkation of migrants “with the will of Minister Salvini to obtain a redistribution at European level “.

A thesis reiterated by Prosecutor Bonomo who specified: “the judgment is not on the appropriateness of that act”, because here “the judgment is not political”.

A reconstruction contested by the civil parties who ask for the trial for Salvini: AccoglieRete, Legambiente. Arci and a family of migrants who were 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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Thesis challenged by Salvini’s lawyer, the lawyer Giulia Bongiorno: “The political choices of the government may or may not be liked – he said in the courtroom in a heated confrontation with some of the civil parties – but they are unquestionable in the principle of separation of powers and decisions adopted in the national interest are impenetrable and cannot be contested in court. The criminal action against Salvini should not even have started, because his was an unquestionable political act ». For Bongiorno, there was «the sharing of the line by the entire Conte 1 government to ‘shake up Europe. There was a new political orientation: to allow the POS where redistribution in Europe was possible. Everyone knew it, even if there were those here who said ‘ah I don’t know’ ».

In the classroom he also spoke of the former Minister of Transport, Danilo Toninelli: «He does not remember – said Bongiorno – he is anxious to show that he was participating in the political debate. But he was not sitting without his knowledge in that minister’s chair and every act of his expressed a political line ».

Finally, Bongiorno also recalled the subsequent case of the Ocean Viking, with Salvini no longer minister, with migrants who remained on the ship for 10 days: “the political line was the same with Conte 2, that is, first the redistribution and then the landings” . Matteo Salvini, at the end of the hearing, awaiting the decision of the Gup set for May 14, reiterated that he would do it all again: «I’ll be back at my children calmly and I hope that May 14 will close here. When I was a minister, unlike others who do not remember, I was not afraid, I knew that there were burdens and honors ». The Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Alessandro Morelli, said he was “proud as millions of Italians have been” of Salvini and “happy with the request of the Catania Public Prosecutor”.

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For the senator of Fi Maurizio Gasparri, president of the elections and immunities of the Senate, it is “evident that this hypothesis of a trial appears to be without any foundation, as is the other being discussed in Palermo”, whose hearing is set for next Saturday. The FdI group leader in the Chamber, Francesco Lollobrigida, invited “the left and the M5s to apologize to Salvini for supporting the raving accusations against him”. For Roberto Occhiuto, group leader of Fi in the Chamber, “in Italy a part of the judiciary thinks they can use justice as an instrument of political struggle, and some politicians think they can cripple their opponents by using the judiciary instrumentally: a short circuit that sooner or later will go away definitely outdated “.

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