“I don’t remember signing the Open Arms ban”

Published on: 12/12/2020 12:10 PM

“Remember having signed this entry, transit and parking ban that is later canceled by the TAR, remember? Your signature is also in this episode, can you recognize your signature?” It is one of the questions that the lawyer Giulia asks Bongiorno to the former minister Danilo Toninelli before the court at the preliminary hearing in Catania on the Gregoretti case. When asked by the lawyer, Toninelli replied, “I don’t remember, it’s been a long time.” And lawyer Bongiorno responded by reminding the former minister of a post posted on Facebook. And he also replied “I don’t remember.”

“The government’s line was to make other European states interested in the location of migrants. But each landing was a separate case,” added Toninelli. And the lawyer Bongiorno, still referring to the I don’t remember Toninelli in the Open Arms caserecalled a post published by Toninelli on the Spanish ship. According to the defense, it is the confirmation of the shared options of the government.

“I answered all the questions that were asked of me with transparency and truth,” said the former minister when he left the bunker. “We have answered all the questions that we cannot enter due to compliance with the process in progress,” he added. “If you read the memorandum presented by the defense of Salvini, on page 37 it says who Salvini is, which in words says’ I am strong and I defend the Italian borders and I am not afraid of anything ‘while in memory it indicates the’ lack of ‘Obligation to indicate the position on the part of the Ministry of the Interior’, explains Toninelli.

“For the assignment of the safe harbor on land there is a single mandate for the Minister of the Interior who is in charge. Instead, we are witnessing an attempt to unload his responsibilities in the Ministry of Transport,” says the former minister. “An attempt by the man who claimed to defend the Italian borders, who was the government’s strong man,” he added. “It is national and international laws that explain that assistance at sea belongs to the ministry of transport, but the allocation of the port disembarkation is the sole responsibility of the Minister of the Interior “. For Toninelli, “Salvini played hard and then unloaded the responsibilities on others“This is the accusation of the former minister, who added:” Although the law says that the responsibility was his. “And again:” In that room a person is being attacked who actually claims to be a man who defended the Italian borders and the The law said that he was responsible for the landings, and in judicial acts he unloaded the responsibilities on others. Did you understand the topic? “.

Former ministers Toninelli and Trenta asked not to be filmed by the cameras during the preliminary hearing. The GUP president accepted the press request to leave the journalists in groups of ten people each, but with the recommendation not to repeat the two texts heard in the classroom.