Matteo Salvini and the lawyer Giulia Bongiorno have just arrived at the Pagliarelli prison in Palermo for the first hearing in the Open Arms trial. The bunker room is armored. Police and Carabinieri guard the area around the bunker. Also present were numerous Spanish journalists who arrived for the hearing.
NGO founder: “Here to get justice”
“We are here to have justice. Securing a safe haven is not a political choice but a choice of humanity,” said Oscar Camps, the founder of the NGO Open Arms, arriving at the bunker room. “We have respected international conventions – he says – regardless of politics, people rescued at sea must be saved”.
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