(ANSA) - Rome, March 21 - The Catania ministerial tribunal on
Thursday shelved charges against Premier Giuseppe Conte, Deputy
Premier Luigi Di Maio and Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli
for their part in a 10-day standoff with the EU last August in
which 177 rescued migrants were allegedly kidnapped by Interior
Minister Matteo Salvini aboard the Diciotti Coast Guard ship.
Catania prosecutors asked for the charges to be dropped at
the end of February.
On Wednesday the Senate refused permission to proceed against
Salvini in the case.
Diciotti charges dropped agst Di Maio
Catania ministerial tribunal OKs prosecutors' request