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19 December 2019 "Risk process and jail for having protected the borders of the Homeland. I am serene and serenity is also given to me by the affection of the people I meet every day who urge me to go ahead, to run straight to defend Italy" . Thus the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, on his twitter profile, after learning that the Court of Ministers of Catania asks for authorization to proceed against him for the case of the ship "Gregoretti". The accusation is that "abusing powers as a minister deprived of 131 personal migrants stranded on board the Coast Guard ship from 24.35 on 27 July 2019 until the afternoon of 31 July".

The junta for parliamentary immunities - convened in the Senate - will examine today, around 13.30, the authorization to proceed against the leader of the Northern League. Maurizio Gasparri, President of the Parliamentary elections and immunity council, announces that Salvini will have 15 days to present a memorial or be heard on the case and that the council should presumably vote on 20 January.

Different political reactions. Even if it is the position taken by the 5 Stars against the former government ally that is discussed at this time. The foreign minister, as well as political leader of the 5Stelle, Luigi Di Maio, during the transmission "Porta a Porta" said that the Movement will vote in favor of the authorization to proceed. And he explains: "I want to remember one thing: when we stopped Diciotti a year earlier, it was because Europe didn't listen to us. We made a big voice and then managed to get redistribution to other European countries. A year later, the redistribution worked, therefore Gregoretti's blockade was not an action decided by the government, but by the Minister of the Interior Salvini, in which case the prevailing public interest was not there, it was a personal action, so much so that afterwards he made them land. against the prevailing public interest ". Di Maio then concludes: "I wish Salvini to prove his innocence".

Orfini (Pd): "Even Salvini is required to respect the law"
"Newspapers report a new request to proceed against Salvini, once again for having deprived 131 migrants aboard the Gregoretti ship of personal freedom. Salvini's reaction was violent. He invoked the right to defend the borders and to exercise his role. He said he is looking forward to looking into the eyes of the prosecutors who accuse him. It is obviously not true, "said Matteo Orfini, a member of parliament from the Democratic Party. "He did the same in the case of Diciotti, only to be saved by Parliament, invoking immunity. But there is something more delicate in these events. Because the attempt by Salvini and the right is to push through the principle that those who make politics he is not obliged to respect the laws. And that is not the case even when those laws protect personal freedoms, "he continues.

"I don't know if Salvini is guilty or not. However, I know that a Minister of the Interior in a democracy cannot abuse his power to deprive people of his freedom. And that there is no reason to state that can justify a "Such an act. Because these things happen only in the regimes. I hope that in the meantime the M5s also understood that last time he saved Salvini from the trial by voting in his favor in parliament", concludes Orfini.

Fratoianni (Leu): "There are no 'impunity spaces' in a democracy"
"I understand Matteo Salvini's anger and fear in these hours after the announcement of the new judicial proceedings against him. The anger at not being able to continue doing, as he did as a minister, what he seemed to disregard any law and international standard, and also the fear of having to answer in a courtroom, which as we all know escapes every occasion. Let us put our minds in peace: spaces of impunity for no one can exist in democracy ". Thus stated Nicola Fratoianni of the Italian Left-Leu.

"What then are Salvini and the Northern League - the MP from Leu continues - to speak of defense of the homeland makes people laugh if we think of the heavy shadows in relations with Russia and other stories ...". "The investigation into what happened with Nave Gregoretti, the complaints at the international level for the Italian responsibilities in the rejections and in the relations with the Libyan traffickers, however, is a warning also for the current government: the 'shameful decree' on security is still there , the ships that save people are still under sequestration, the Libyan lagers are still full of human beings. We need a change of pace ", concludes Fratoianni.

Germanà (FI): Di Maio turncoats in the flesh
"Last night the political leader of the Five Stars announced the favorable vote for the authorization to try Salvini for the kidnapping on the Gregoretti ship. Di Maio however five months ago voted against the same request for Salvini on the identical case of the Diciotti ship" . This was stated in a note by Nino Germanà, a deputy of Forza Italia. "I consider it dangerous for democracy that a minister of the Republic and a political leader can embody the prototype of the turncoat, that is, of that subject who, according to the dictionary, changes his opinion easily and with great lightness for his own advantage. I tell Di Maio he would do better to authorize a political process against Bonafede acting as Minister of Justice
without distinguishing the intent from the fault by ridiculing the entire judicial system, "he concludes.