Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, accused of kidnapping and refusal to perform official duties in the Open Arms affair, has been definitively acquitted.
This was decided by the judges of the Fifth Section of the Court of Cassation, who rejected the appeal for saltum presented by the Palermo Prosecutor's Office following the first-instance acquittal.
"Five years of trial: defending the borders is not a crime": this is what the leader of the League said on X.
"The word 'satisfaction' expresses what I feel right now," commented lawyer Giulia Bongiorno . "This is a trial that shouldn't have even begun, and this definitive resolution underscores what I argued in court: the prosecutor's appeal was completely out of place, but what matters to us is the correctness of Salvini's actions. All of this confirms that a trial has begun that truly shouldn't have occurred, and this has also been confirmed by the prosecutor general's conclusions."
(Unioneonline)
