Billionaire and advisor to the next US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, is very pleased with the acquittal of Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Lega leader Matteo Salvini. He was accused of deprivation of liberty and abuse of office during his time as Minister of the Interior in 2019.
Hopefully, Salvini, currently Minister of Transport in Giorgia Meloni’s government, can serve again as Italy’s Interior Minister in the future, Musk wrote on X.
Musk had also shown solidarity with Salvini before the verdict was handed down. The League boss was defending Italy’s borders, Musk argued.
“We have proven that the fight against mass immigration and the organized and financed invasion is not a crime,” Salvini said, commenting on his acquittal, according to media reports.
“We will continue to open our doors to foreign young people fleeing war and coming legally to Italy to build a future and work. “But it is the government’s right and duty to expel all those who have no right to be here,” he continued.
Thunderous applause in the courtroom
After a trial that lasted more than three years before a court in Palermo, Sicily, Salvini was acquitted by a Palermo court on Friday of charges of deprivation of liberty and abuse of office. The Public Prosecution Service had demanded a six-year prison sentence. The announcement of the verdict was accompanied by thunderous applause.
The Public Prosecution Service accused the current Minister of Transport of having prevented an aid organization ship with 147 migrants on board from entering the port of the island of Lampedusa for weeks in 2019, when he was Minister of the Interior. It cannot be ruled out that she will appeal against the verdict. The leader of the right-wing ruling party Lega is one of the central figures in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition.
Source: Krone
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