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Senate committee blocks request to try Salvini over migrants held at sea

19 febbraio 2019 | 16.20
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Senate committee blocks request to try Salvini over migrants held at sea

Hardline interior minister and deputy premier Matteo Salvini should not stand trial over the case of 177 migrants he left stranded off Sicily on a rescue ship for ten days last August, a Senate committee decided on Tuesday.

Members of the Senate's parliamentary immunity committee backed a resolution by its chairman, Maurizio Gasparri, which asked it to reject a request by a special court in Sicily to send Salvini to trial for kidnapping and other crimes in the so-called 'Diciotti' case.

Committee members approved Gasparri's resolution by 16 votes in favour and four against. Salvini's ruling League party, its conservative coalition partners and the grassroots 5 Star Movement - the League's partner in the coalition government - voted for the resolution, while those from the centre-left Democratic Party opposed it.

The Umberto Diciotti is the name of the Italian coastguard ship that picked up the 177 migrants, who Salvini refused to allow ashore until other states agreed to take them in.

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