A dossier of charges against
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini including kidnapping, illegal
arrest and abuse of office in the Diciotti migrant case was sent
from Agrigento to Palermo on Friday.
Salvini kept the 177 Eritreans aboard the coast guard ship
for 10 days saying they could not land until the EU agreed to
take them in.
In the end the Italian Catholic Church, Ireland and Albania
agreed to take them.
Salvini, who has stopped migrant rescue ships from docking in
Italy, is to be tried by a ministers' court in the Sicilian
capital.
Also charged with the same alleged crimes is his cabinet
chief Matteo Piantedosi.
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