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November 29, 2019The Public Prosecutor's Office of Palermo sent the Court of Ministers of the Sicilian capital the documents relating to the proceedings against the former Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, who had been investigated by the investigative office of Agrigento for kidnapping and omissions of office records in the story of the Ong Open Arms ship. It is not known whether the Palermo prosecutors, in sending the file, requested the dismissal of the case or indicated, as they did for the Diciotti affair, new elements to investigate.

Within ninety days of receipt of the documents, having completed the preliminary investigations and having heard the public prosecutor, if he does not consider that the filing should be ordered, the Court transmits the proceeding with a motivated report to the public prosecutor who sends it to the competent Chamber for authorization to proceed if the suspect is parliamentary.

Salvini was investigated in Agrigento for having prevented the disembarkation in August and retained 164 migrants rescued in the Libyan SAR area on board the ship of the Spanish NGO. The story was released by the seizure of the boat, for reasons of health emergency, by the Agrigento prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio. Patronage in August opened an investigation against unknown persons for kidnapping and omission of official records. Only two weeks ago, after registering Salvini in the register of suspects, he transmitted the papers to his colleagues in Palermo.

The Court of Ministers in Palermo is composed of three women and is presided over by the oldest member, Caterina Greco. Its other components are Lucia Fontana and Maria Cirrincione. A new composition, compared to that of the Diciotti case, carried out with a drawing by the presidential court of the Sicilian capital that has already prepared the premises in which the three judges will meet.