For Republic, which reports the opinions and (many) worries of the men of the Democratic Party who have decided to desert the vote in the bargain, behind the choice of Matteo Salvini to be tried there would be only a mere political calculation. In practice, this is the vision of the dem, the League leader would like to be put on the cross to go to the proceeds, with an unscrupulous move, to the next elections in Emilia Romagna is Calabria. In short, an evil genius willing to end up in jail (at least on paper) for a handful of more votes. But is it really so? Let’s go in order and retrace the Gregoretti case.
Matteo Salvini and the Gregoretti case
The Gregoretti case broke out in July 2019, when a Coast Guard ship, the Gregoretti in fact, it loads about fifty migrants on board who, following a terrible shipwreck, had been made to board the Accursio Giarratano. That day, at least one hundred bodies were dispersed at sea, while the others, the lucky few, were rescued by Italian and Maltese boats. Gregoretti then sets off for Lampedusa, where she has six migrants disembarked who need medical assistance and then sets off on her journey to the Italian coast. As reported The print, however, during the trip Gregoretti must “help another group of 91 migrants who had been reported by Tunisian fishermen”. On board the boat there are now 131 migrants. Everything seems to suggest that the ship will dock in an Italian port, but Salvini blocks it. Asks the intervention of Europe which, as usual, prefers to close its eyes to what is happening in the Mediterranean: “I will not give any permission to disembark until the concrete commitment to welcome all immigrants to Europe arrives. aboard the ship. Let’s see if the words will follow facts. I won’t quit. “
Finally, Gregoretti docks at port of Augusta on 26 July and the Captains’ Office informs that the migrants “on board are assisted by the crew and the medical team awaiting, as confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior, the political decisions and the positive response of the European Union on the relocation of the rescued castaways “. In the meantime, even the then Minister of Infrastructure, Danilo Toninelli, makes the big voice with the EU: “Gregoretti moored tonight at the port of Augusta, as it is normal it’s for a military ship. Now the EU is responding, because the migration issue concerns the whole continent “. The government, then yellow-green, seems compact: stop migrants’ departures and allocate quotas among all EU countries.
An endless series of controversies ensues over the behavior of the Minister of the Interior and the government, but migrants are eventually landed.
Now let’s jump forward and arrive on December 18, 2019 when – guest of Out of the core, the Network 4 program conducted by Mario Giordano – Salvini announces: “Signed by the President of the Court of Ministers Nicola La Mantia, registered in the Democratic Judiciary, it is sent to the President of the Senate that Salvini would be guilty of an aggravated kidnapping crime by abusing of his powers. I risk up to 15 years in prison. I think it is a shame that a minister is tried for having made the interest of his country “. And then: “I would like to know how much this process will cost the community”. And this despite the prosecutor’s office in Catania asking for the archiving.
So we come to today and the vote of the junta. Why did Salvini decide to be tried?
Because Salvini wants to be tried for the Gregoretti case
As written on The newspaper, there is a fundamental reason behind Salvini’s decision to be tried: the leader of the League, in fact, would have them in his hands cards that would show that theaffaire Gregoretti would not concern only him, but the whole government. In fact, every decision taken in those tragic days of July would have been shared by the whole government: “To resolve the Gregoretti affair there were numerous discussions between the Interior Ministry, the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and community bodies” and “the green light to land it was announced by the Minister of the Interior, as soon as agreements were concluded for the redistribution of immigrants in a structure of Italian bishops and in five European countries “. Opinion confirmed, albeit indirectly, by the Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede which, on 30 July 2019, states a On air on La7: “The government’s position is always the same: rights are safeguarded, the people we had to get off have come down, health conditions are monitored, but the whole immigration problem must be borne by the immigration problem”. Bonafede himself adds: “I thank President Conte who continues to pose the question in the chanceries of Europe”.
But not only. Salvini has decided to follow an uncompromising line because he does not want to disavow the Northern League line, which was then that of the whole yellow-green government, on immigration. And this also because, numbers in hand, represents one of the successes of that executive. Landings (and even deaths at sea) have decreased and Europe has begun to understand that the immigration issue must be addressed by all member countries. But this many seem to forget it. Above all inside the 5 star movement.
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