Salvini: “I have no worries, only the time lost and the money it costs the Italian taxpayer”
“At a time when we are talking about defending borders in other parts of the world, I have done what was my duty: therefore, from this point of view I have no worries, only the time that is lost and the money that cost the Italian taxpayer “. The leader of the League said it, Matteo Salvinispeaking with reporters at the end of the Open Arms trial, in Palermo.
“If these are the witnesses of the prosecution we have already won. There is no element against me. If they were all like that”. The leader of the League said, Matteo Salvini on the sidelines of the trial on the story of the Open Arms ship which in 2019 was prevented by the Interior Ministry from docking in Lampedusa with the 147 migrants rescued at sea. Salvini was then Minister of the Interior.
OPEN ARMS, SALVINI’S DEFENSE: “WITNESSES CONFIRM THAT MIGRANTS WERE IN DISCRETE CONDITIONS AND COULD GO TO SPAIN” – No migrant aboard the Open Arms had been hospitalized once they received the green light to disembark in Sicily, their conditions were in fact “fair” so much so that it was not possible to exclude the possibility of a further trip to Spain. The defense of Matteo Salvini underlines this, after the testimonies of Vincenzo Asaro, manager of the ASP of Agrigento who came on board in August 2019 and of Dr. Cristina Camilleri (Head of CTA Mental Health Department of Agrigento). Both witnesses were called by the prosecution. It should be noted that the Open Arms had refused to disembark 39 people in Malta and that the governments of Madrid and Rome had already given willingness to make alternative ships available to facilitate navigation to Spain. Salvini is defended by the lawyer Giulia Bongiorno.
OPEN ARMS, SALVINI’S DEFENSE: “THE FORMER PREFECT OF AGRIGENTO CONFIRMS THE CONCERN OF THE ATTORNEY FOR POSSIBLE LANDINGS OF TERRORISTS” – The former prefect of Agrigento, Dario Caputo, confirmed the concern of the prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio for the possible presence on the ships of dangerous people (for example terrorists), underlining that with Carola Rackete’s SeaWatch3 at least two accused subjects had arrived in Italy of having committed torture in Libya. The defense of Matteo Salvini points out. The Lega leader’s lawyer is Giulia Bongiorno. Prefect Caputo also stressed that the landing in Lampedusa of migrants aboard the Open Arms would have caused the hotspot to overcrowd.
Open Arms: doctor, “there was terror of being returned to Libya” – “The life drive in the whole group of migrants was greater than death. The whole group had decided on this point: they were all united by the terror of being brought back to Libya, they would not return there because they associated that place with the death. Those who in the previous days had dived into the sea did not do it for self-harm, rather for the fear of being brought back to Libya and therefore dying “. Dr. Cristina Camilleri (Head of the CTA Mental Health Department of Agrigento) said this, answering as witnesses to the questions of the public prosecutor, in the context of the trial that sees the former Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini – present in the courtroom as defendant together with her lawyer, the lawyer Giulia Buongiorno, accused of kidnapping and refusal of official documents, for the facts relating to August 2019, when the NGO Open Arms ship with 147 migrants on board waited for over 15 days before being able to dock in a safe harbor.
The trial takes place in the bunker room of the Ucciardone prison in Palermo before the second criminal section of the Court of Palermo, chaired by Roberto Murgia. Doctor Camilleri, specialized in psychiatry and forensic psychopathology, boarded the Opne Arms, to check in particular the psycho-physical conditions of the migrants: “Indifference, anger, lack of willingness to collaborate and lack of trust and hope. I ended my relationship supporting a condition of urgency – he said – and it was necessary to prevent it from turning into an emergency “. Dr. Camilleri reported that – in particular for the male “setting” – 30 percent of the people interviewed reported torture suffered in Libya, including through the visualization of injuries, fractures of limbs and claudication.
Open Arms: Captain, never threatened by migrants on board – “We have never felt threatened by the refugees on board. The only moments of tension were determined by actions carried out by the refugees out of desperation: like when some jumped into the sea to try to swim to Lampedusa”. He said this, deposing at the trial for kidnapping and refusal of official documents against the former Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, Marc Reig Creus, captain of the Open Arms ship which, in August 2019, was denied by the Interior Ministry permission to land 147 refugees rescued at sea on Lampedusa. The captain, who has been carrying out rescue missions for refugees since 2017, is reconstructing to the judges of the court of Palermo the details of three rescue operations at sea carried out between 1 August and 9 August 2019 in Libyan and Maltese sar waters. The three groups of migrants, helped in three distinct moments, were then taken aboard the Open Arms which waited for the indication of the safe harbor until August 20 in front of the island of Lampedusa. In all interventions the refugees would have been in difficult conditions. According to the testimony of the captain, Malta would never have indicated the so-called safe harbor, the possibility, that is, of docking on its coasts.
Open Arms: prefect of Agrigento, no terrorist alarm – “The Agrigento prosecutor of the time expressed concern to me about possible terrorist infiltrations among the refugees who arrived on the Sicilian coasts but it was not specifically referred to the migrants rescued by the Open Arms, rather it was a general alarm”. This was stated by the former prefect of Agrigento, Dario Caputo, at the trial for kidnapping and refusal of official documents against the leader of the League and former interior minister Matteo Salvini. Salvini is accused of illegitimately refusing to land in Lampedusa the refugees rescued in August 2019 from the ship of the Catalan NGO Open Arms.
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