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In September, the prosecutor requested for a six-year jail time period for Salvini in addition to compensation of greater than €1 million for damages if the court docket had discovered him responsible.
The appeals course of following the decision may nonetheless take years.
Salvini repeatedly defended himself, saying he “merely protected the nation’s borders,” by stopping the migrants from touchdown on Italian soil, and that he was doing “what Italians had requested him to do: defending the nation.”
Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and different members of the federal government have confirmed fixed assist for Salvini over the previous few months.
“It is unbelievable {that a} Minister of the Italian Republic dangers 6 years in jail for having accomplished his job defending the borders of the Nation, as required by the mandate acquired from the residents,” Meloni wrote on Sept. 14, on the day the prosecutor requested six years in jail for Salvini.
Following Meloni’s feedback, opposition chief Elly Schlein criticized the prime minister for commenting on an ongoing trial. “I discovered the intervention of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni very inappropriate,” she mentioned. “We suppose that the chief and judicial powers are separate and autonomous. Therefore, institutional respect would require not commenting on open trials,” she added.
