ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The conduct challenged to Matteo Salvini, that is to have, in the quality of minister of the Interior and abusing his own powers, deprived unduly of personal freedom 147 migrants, omitting without justified reason to positively hesitate the requests of Pos sent to his office of cabinet, so provoking the illegitimate deprivation of personal freedom, forcing them to remain on board the person of the This is what the judges of the fifth section of the Cassation write in the motivations of the sentence with which on 17 December last made definitive absolution for Minister Matteo Salvini, accused of kidnapping and refusal of office acts for the story Open Arms.
According to the judges to the migrants is “was prevented the entry into the port of Lampedusa and the landing, however at costro was not prevented from the Italian Authority, and especially from Salvini – through its acts in the quality of Minister of the Interior – to make course in other direction”.
At the Open Arms “it was indicated by the Kingdom of Spain (State of the flag of the ship, contacted immediately at the time of the rescues) a port to land (On 18 August 2019), modified (in the sense that a closer one had been indicated in that of Palma de Mallorca) just to limit over time the stay on board of migrants (compared to that, more distant, at first indicated in Ceuta), in adherence to the request of the commander of the ship”.
In addition, “two other ships were made available, one immediately available of the Italian Coast Guard, on which to tranship migrants, in part immediately, and through which to approach the Spanish coasts escorting the Open Arms, reaching the Spanish military ship that would also be approximated to the Open Arms; and this was in conformity with what was also required by the commander of the ship that, however, did not respond to the repeated invitations of the Italian Authority”.
BONGIORNO “SENTENZA CONFERMA CORRETTEZZA SALVINI”
“The decision of the Cassation, in full adherence to the acts, has clearly and unequivocally certified the correctness of the work of the then Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini in the case Open Arms. The migrants, to whom Italy has always provided care and assistance, writes the Cassation, have never been deprived of personal freedom and the ship could have broken in Spain where a safe landing place had been assigned.” Thus Giulia Bongiorno, lawyer of Matteo Salvini, commenting on the Cassation on the case OpenArms.
PIANTEDOSI “CASSAZIONE SPAZZA VIA RETORICA DI CERTA SINISTRA”
“With the motivations of the sentence that has defined as absolute Matteo Salvini by the infamous accusation of kidnapping himself, the Cassation wiped out all the rhetoric behind which a certain left had hidden its failures for years. Defending Italian borders and countering illegal immigration is not crime. In fact, as we have always argued, it is a right and even a political duty. There was no limitation of the freedom of those on board the Open Arms ship. After the landing of vulnerable subjects had been allowed, the commander could safely head towards the port indicated by the flag state, Spain. Nor could any relief have the alleged problems of public order and security invoked by the same commander. The Supreme Court clarified once and for all that what happened on a ship flying Spanish flag, it could not fall automatically on the Italian authorities, because it was issues that had relevance only for the community traveling on that same ship”. The Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi.
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