Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini summoned on Saturday morning an urgent meeting of
the federal council of his League party following the "attack
against Italy and Italians by a politicized magistrature", the
League said in a note.
The meeting was organized one day after a hearing in the trial
of League leader and former anti-migrant interior minister
Salvini for allegedly abducting migrants as part of his
controversial closed ports policy in 2019 and the decision of
the special immigration unit of Rome's tribunal not to validate
the detention of all 12 migrants who were taken Wednesday to a
newly opened Italian hosting and repatriation centre in Gjader,
Albania, on the grounds that their countries of provenance,
Bangladesh and Egypt, are not safe.
The note went on to say that, "over the coming days, the League
will present in Italian municipalities motions to stress the
need to defend borders, while on Saturday December 14 and on
Sunday December 15 there will be gazebos in all Italian cities
ahead of the Open Arms sentence scheduled in Palermo on December
20".
According to Salvini, "those who don't allow to defend borders,
endanger the country", it concluded.
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