Gregoretti case, the prosecutor asks that Salvini be filed. The Gup asks to hear from Conte, Di Maio and the ministers involved. Prime Minister: “I will report transparently”

The first Minister Giuseppe Conte and former ministers Toninelli me Thirty will be heard on November 20 atclassroom bunker from the Catania “Bicocca” prison, while Luigi di maio, the current head of the Ministry of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese and the ambassador in Brussels Maurizio massari December 4. This is how the Catania gup decided Nunzio Sarpietro at the end of the preliminary hearing on Gregoretti case he sees involved Matteo salvini. The former Minister of the Interior is accused of aggravated kidnapping, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for the matter of Coast Guard Ship since July 2019: this is the first case related to the management of migrants Salvini’s plaque that ends in front of a judge. As expected, the prosecutor headed by Carmelo Zuccaro and represented by the deputy prosecutor Andrea Bonomo Instead he asked for the “no place to proceed” against the secretary of the League: he had already done so in September 2019, but then the court of ministers intervened to establish that he should arrive at the courtroom. The lawyer for the secretary of the Northern League has the same idea Giulia Bongiorno, who among other things was injured in the courtroom pending the judge’s ruling. As an alternative to acquittal, it was she who asked to hear from Lamorgese – who took office after the government crisis caused by Salvini himself in August 2019 – to understand if the current government is still being implemented today. disembarkation procedures similar to those adopted with Gregoretti.

Everything postponed to next month, therefore, when the judge hears the new witnesses. Starting with Prime Minister Conte, who has already confirmed his willingness to appear in court: “When the judiciary calls, even a political leader must answer. I will report all the circumstances that I know, with total transparency as I have always done and as I always will ”. In the provision with which the new investigation acts, we read first that “procedural history arises from a manifest contrast of judgments between the district attorney and the court of ministers of Catania. “The judge intends to” determine how many and which episodes of similar migrant landings From the point of view of the facts, that of the Gregoretti ship occurred in the period in which the investigated held the position of Minister of the Interior, extending the assessment to other landings that occurred later even governance structure (Account 2) “. For this, the information provided by the judicial police will be essential, as of the date of the events, the narration of the events that preceded the disembarkation, the date of indication of the pos (Safe Harbor) and to know which body has adopted it, checking the criminal proceedings initiated in relation to the different landings. In order for an adequate verification to be adopted at the government level, in matters of immigration at the time of the events and relations with the EU, also in reference to the so-called ‘Government Pact’ -adds Gup Sarpietro- it is necessary to keep the record The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ”and all the other institutional offices involved.

“Me satisfies that the judge appeals to the prime minister to ask him: ‘Did you do the same the following year?’ There are dozens of articles that show that the process is the same ”, commented the Carroccio leader after the Gup’s decision. “Now someone else will have to say What did“He added, specifying that he considers Conte and the other ministers”innocent“.” I could have said otherwise out of a spirit of revenge. And instead I hope they come here for half an hour and then take care of something else. “Bongiorno then intervened, leaving the classroom in Wheelchair due to accident. “We emphasize that the procedure followed in the Gregoretti case was not impromptu initiative Salvini, who wanted to kidnap people, but the option of waiting before disembarking the migrants, as part of a procedure planned in government contract and the 2018 European Council ″. The lawyer also attended the hearing. Massimo Ferrante representing four of the injured identified in the process: a couple of nigerians and her two sons, ages 10 and 6, who were aboard the Coast Guard ship. Several associations have requested to be formed civil party: in addition to Arci and Legambiente, there are the NGO “You will welcome” dealing with unaccompanied minors. “The minors on board the Gregoretti last year were shot down only at the request of the Juvenile Court and not because then-Minister Salvini decided. She left them on board for days in the heat and with only one bath. Deserves accusation“, Declared the president Carla Frenguelli. “Salvini took them hostage to obtain a redistribution of migrants.”

A thesis also shared by the afterlife 500 protesters who protest a few steps from the field. “We already have the sentence. Salvini m… ”, reads an unrolled banner in Piazza Trento. And again: “Justice does not make a court.” In the parade, organized by the “Committee never with Salvini Sicilia”, there are some boys who push two supermarket carts full of rolls of toilet paper in which the face of the league leader is portrayed. Of a completely different nature parallel demonstration installed by the Carroccio supporters in the port square of Catania. Activists and party officials waited all morning for the leader to arrive, but the prolonged audience prevented him from participating.

Salvini’s day actually began at dawn, with a coffee at three among the big names of the center-right. In fact, to face the first hearing, the leader of the Carroccio gathered all his allies in Catania, organizing a three-day meeting that coincides with the eve of municipal on the island. Next to him in a hotel on the seafront of the Sicilian city were the vice president of Forza Italia Antonio Tajani and the president of Fratelli d’Italia Giorgia Meloni. Initially, the meeting was scheduled in Piazza Duomo, but the prefect asked to move it safety reasons. We are here “for one just justice and not politicized, to defend the right of politics to make decisions, ”Tajani tweeted in the morning. Meloni also did not lose his support, telling reporters that he “saw good, calm and receptive” to the former head of the Interior Ministry. “I suppose there is also nervousness. I don’t think anyone for doing that job could have imagined going to court. For people like us, going to court is serious business. But i found it very combative“.

Presiding over the audience was the Gup Nunzio SarpietroAfter Prime Minister Conte and the ministers of the previous government involved in the Gregoretti affair are heard, it will be up to him to decide whether to accept the file request again advanced by the prosecution or whether to prosecute the leader of the Carroccio. The accusation is of having abused his powers to deprive of personal liberty i 131 migrants trapped aboard the Gregoretti from 00:35 on July 27, 2019 until the afternoon of July 31 “following, when the Italian Coast Guard ship received authorization to disembark in the port of Augusta, in Syracuse. Allegations that The former minister has always vigorously rejected, as he reiterated in his 50-page defensive brief presented to the Catania judge’s secretary, explaining that “there has been no illegal deprivation of personal liberty, pending the organization of the transfer” “final destination“The Etna city district attorney had requested that the file be closed, but the Court of Ministers considered that the preliminary hearing should pass and the Senate granted authorization to proceed.