Battle in the courtroom in the first hearing of the Milanese trial against Lega leader Matteo Salvini accused of aggravated defamation against Carola Racketethe former commander of Sea Watch 3, because, between June and July 2019, he would have offended “the reputation” of the young woman with direct Facebook and Twitter posts with phrases like “that sbruffoncella of this commander”, “German criminal”, ” rich and spoiled communist “.
Defense Salvini: “He spoke in full exercise of his duties as senator”
The defense of the former Minister of the Interior, with the lawyer Claudia Eccher, he asked the judge of the fourth penalty to be immediately acquitted by raising a “non-punishable case”, that is the “unquestionability” of those declarations, a “political message” expressed in the “full exercise” of his functions as senator.
For prosecutor Serafini that of Salvini was “an attack on the person”
“These are not sentences that pertain to a political speech, even from the Ministry of the time, but real attacks on the person, his dignity, expressions of denigration, it was a direct attack on the person”, replied the prosecutor Giancarla Serafini, asking that that preliminary objection of immediate acquittal be rejected. “We are faced not with the ugly sentence, but with a hate speech constructed by a person who exploits his position”, said the lawyer of the civil party Except Treasurerattorney with the colleague Alessandro Gamberini of the German activist. At the end of the hearing (postponed to June 23), the lawyer Eccher replied again, explaining that he had heard “unsuitable words in the courtroom: there was talk of ‘hate speech by a minister who exploits his role’ and of ‘politics criminal of a minister ‘”. Then, however, the prosecutor also explained to her outside the hearing that he had referred with those last words she cited to the “crime fighting” policy carried out by Salvini.
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