No ultra snap if I'd known - Salvini

(ANSA) - Florence, December 19 - Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday he would not have had his photo taken with AC Milan ultra leader and convicted drug pusher Luca Lucci if he had known of the fan chief's conviction.
    "It was the first time I had met him," said the deputy premier and avid Milan fan, who stressed that "I have my photo taken with hundreds of people every day".
    He said he could not be expected to ask all of them if they had a criminal record.
    Salvini had been criticised for first shrugging off criticism of the case by saying he was "a man probed among others probed", unaware that Lucci had been convicted and not merely placed under investigation.
    Salvini was placed under investigation for alleged kidnapping in a rescued migrants standoff with the EU.