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02 July 2019

The investigating judge of Agrigento did not validate the arrest of the Sea Watch commander Carola Rackete and did not order any precautionary measures against the young German woman. The prosecutor had requested the validation of the provision and the prohibition of stay in the province of Agrigento. Carola, therefore, returns free.

The investigating judge: "Security not applicable"
The Dl security bis "is not applicable to rescue actions", explains the investigating magistrate of Agrigento, Alessandra Vella, who did not validate the arrest of the commander, as referable only to the conduct of the smugglers.

According to the investigating judge of Agrigento the decision to dock at Lampedusa would not have been "instrumental, but mandatory" because the ports of Libya and Tunisia were not considered safe havens. The Public Prosecutor's Office also stated that "the state of necessity" did not exist. Moreover, for the Prosecutor the impact between the Sea Watch ship and the lookout of the Gdf was "voluntary", as explained yesterday by the Prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio at the end of the validation hearing. "It was negatively evaluated, voluntarily, the maneuver carried out with the lateral engines of the Sea Watch which produced the crushing of the Guardia di Finanza patrol boat towards the quay. This act was considered, by us, done with conscience and will "he said. Carola Rackete is accused for the 1100 crimes of the navigation code, ie resistance to a warship, and article 337 of the penal code, that is resistance to a public officer.

Salvini: "Ready to ship it to Germany"
"For the Italian judiciary, ignoring the laws and ramming a Guardia di Finanza patrol boat are not sufficient reasons to go to jail. No problem: for the criminal commander Carola Rackete a provision is ready to send her back to her country because it is dangerous for national security" . Thus the Interior Minister Matteo Salvini comments on the decision of the magistrate of Agrigento.

Carola Rackete, explains Salvini, "will return to his Germany, where they would not be so tolerant of an Italian woman who had to attack the life of German policemen. Italy raised its head again: we are proud to defend our country and be different from others European leaders who think they can still treat us as their colony. The free ride is over ".

"Judgment that is not good for Italy"
"In Italy there are thousands of judges and magistrates who do their job well and do not do politics with the sentences. Tonight's is a sentence that does no honor and is not good for Italy," the Interior Minister added in live on Facebook. "I have no words. What needs to be done to end up in jail in Italy? I am ashamed of those who allow the first criminal to come from abroad and disobey the laws and put the lives of the soldiers who do their work at risk. The German commander deliberately risked killing 5 boys in uniform and everything turns into a slap on the shoulder and maybe a glass of wine with the white, German, and rich little lady, a little bored If someone thinks I give up or he was wrong to understand, "added Salvini.

"Even today at the ministry - the minister continued - we have stopped to evaluate to stop other ships accomplices of the scafisti. But we try to think - it has then hypothesized Salvini - to a ship of an Italian NGO with Italian flag in German or Dutch waters, that enters the territorial waters despite the no of the government, which ignores the law, which advances towards the port of Hamburg, stops near the port and one night, disconnecting the radio, without warning anyone, leaves towards the port and spurs a patrol boat German with 5 German soldiers on board who, by a miracle, manage to escape, and then the Italian ship's commander is welcomed by the Germans as if she were a heroine and the German judge what does she do?

Di Maio: "The release surprises, confiscates the ship"
"I am surprised by the release of Carola Rackete. I reiterate my closeness to the Guardia di Finanza. The issue remains, however, the immediate confiscation of the boat. If we confiscate immediately, next time they cannot return to the sea and provoke our country and the our laws ". Thus, on Twitter, the minister and deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio.

The prefect of Agrigento signs the expulsion decree
"I signed the deportation order for Carola Rackete a few moments ago." This was said by the Prefect of Agrigento Dario Caputo. The decision was announced after the ruling of the investigating judge who released the commander Sea watch from Minister Salvini. "I confirm to you that I have signed the provision - he says - We will see what happens now because a further interrogation is planned but nothing prevents the signing of the expulsion decree". The decree will still be validated by the judicial authority.

Tension under the house of Carola, signs for and against Salvini
Moments of tension below the apartment that the commander has been hosting since yesterday. At the news of his release, a man took to the streets with a billboard that read: "Salvini unica capitano". "The Italian laws must be respected - the man says - He rammed a military ship and was killing several soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza, cheering Italy". While a few meters away another banner reads: "Standing your side Carola".