Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini said amid a fresh migrant spat between Italy and
France Thursday that Rome would not accept lessons from those
like the French who pushed back women and children at the border
with Italy.
Salvini was speaking after French Interior Minister Gérald
Darmanin called Premier Giorgia Meloni a far right leader who
was unable to solve the migrant issues she had been elected for
amid an extremely serious migrant crisis, also likening her to
French far right leader Marine Le Pen.
Salvini, Meloni's biggest government ally and the rightwing
League party leader, said: "I'm proud to be a friend of Marine
Le Pen and to be in government with Giorgia Meloni, and I don't
take lessons on immigration from those who push back into Italy
women, children and men, instead continuing to host murderers
and terrorists who should return to Italy," referring to a March
28 French supreme Court of Cassation ruling confirming a lower
court's refusal to extradite 10 former leftist terrorists,
mostly ex- members of the Red Brigades (BR) group which
dominated Italy's Years of Lead of social turmoil and leftist
and rightist political violence from the late 1960s to the mid
1980s.
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