Leftist Prosecutors in Sicily Appeal to Italian Supreme Court Against Mateo Salvini’s Acquittal in Sham Migrant Boat ‘Kidnapping’ Trial
All over Europe, the right-wingers are gaining electoral ground, while Liberal-Globalists embedded into the state bureaucracies try to check their advances and destroy their leaders.
Take Italy, for example: a country firmly in the hands of a rightwing government, but that is constantly hindered by judicial activism, as is the case of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s deal with Albania to hold failed asylum seekers in camps outside Italy.
Another example is the absurd prosecution of Deputy Prime Minister Mateo Salvini for ‘kidnapping’ a boat filled with illegal migrants, because he denied authorization for docking in Italian ports.
Salvini was duly acquitted in the trial, and Meloni celebrated like this:
But yesterday, a court document showed that prosecutors in Palermo have filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against the acquittal of Salvini.
Reuters reported:
“Salvini – the leader of the League party – was charged after he ordered a boat carrying migrants to be kept out at sea when he was interior minister in 2019, an act that prosecutors said amounted to kidnapping the people on board.
Prosecutors had sought a six-year jail term for Salvini, who is now the transport minister in the government of Giorgia Meloni. But he was cleared last year.”
‘It’s surreal, this relentless pursuit, after a failed three-year trial – against a minister who wanted to enforce the law – concluded with a full acquittal. I wonder what Italians think of all this energy and resources spent in this way, while thousands of honest citizens await justice.’
“’Defending Italy and its borders is not a crime’, Salvini said in a post on his Instagram profile on Friday in response to the prosecutors’ move.”
European rightwing leaders were quick to defend Salvini, one of the leaders of the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament.
Romanian Georges Simion, Netherlands’ Geet Wilders, Spain’s Santiago Abascal, France’s Marine Le Pen and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ported messages of support on X.
Leftist absurdity on full display – Italian prosecutors are appealing @matteosalvinimi’s acquittal in the ‘Open Arms’ case for doing what every responsible leader should do: defend his country’s borders. This isn’t justice, it’s a political vendetta. We stand with Matteo!
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) July 18, 2025
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