Deputy Premier and Interior Minister
Matteo Salvini said Thursday that a small minority of judges in
Italy are acting politically when making decisions.
He was commenting after he said the government would appeal
against several rulings regarding its policies on security and
migration and named the judges who made them, saying they should
have declared themselves incompatible because of their stances
on these issues.
Anti-migrant Euroskeptic nationalist League party leader
Salvini told Mediaset television he was not drafting a black
list of hostile judges.
But he added that "I take note of the fact that, while
thousands of magistrates do their jobs honestly, some act
politically, they write books and go to conferences in favour of
open ports for migrants.
"Is it normal for a judge to go to a conference that is an
advert for mass immigration to then judge the policies of the
interior ministry?".
The President of Florence's Appeals Court, Margherita
Cassano, blasted the attack, which regarded one of the court's
judges, among others.
"As president of the court of appeal, I feel duty bound to
intervene regarding the moral lynching directed at Luciana
Breggia, who has been exposed to danger to her safety because of
the serious attacks she has suffered, given the media
reverberations and the multiplier effect of the social media
galaxy," Cassano told reporters.
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