Since mid-2017, the number of migrants making the journey by boat has decreased significantly, but that has not stopped populist parties from capitalizing on the matter. The migrant crisis reached its peak in 20 when a record number of unauthorized migrants landed in Italy. “I am sure that the generous millionaire will host them all in his villas,” Mr. Salvini routinely engaged in highly publicized standoffs with nongovernmental organizations that rescued migrants from the sea and then brought them to Italy. Salvini’s efforts to position himself as a protector of everyday Italians persecuted by politically motivated magistrates. If anything, the hearings - and the role of the Hollywood star - may revive the issue and Mr. “I think he cannot tell us anything relevant,” she said. Gere, who spent 12 hours aboard the ship, would offer valuable insight to the investigation. Salvini’s defense is confident the current case will also go nowhere, and Giulia Bongiorno, his lawyer, said in a phone interview that she doubted that Mr. Salvini should not stand trial in a similar case because his actions could not be considered kidnapping. Gere visited the boat - where activists said a “humanitarian crisis” was taking place - in an effort to draw international attention to the situation. Salvini, then the interior minister, refused for days to allow into Italy about 150 migrants rescued at sea by a vessel operated by the Spanish charity Open Arms.
17, centers on an August 2019 episode in which Mr. Salvini said to reporters on Saturday after a hearing in the Sicilian city of Palermo. “You tell me how serious is a trial where Richard Gere will come from Hollywood to testify on my nastiness,” Mr. He is accused of abduction and violating international human rights conventions. Salvini will be tried for turning away migrants. Salvini’s efforts to regain attention received a star-powered lift when a court accepted Richard Gere, the American actor and humanitarian activist, as a witness in a court case in which Mr. ROME - Matteo Salvini, the nationalist leader who as interior minister exercised enormous influence in Italy, lost his position in the cabinet and at the center of the spotlight, particularly after a new establishment prime minister effectively sidelined the country’s populists.īut this weekend, Mr.
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