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February 12, 2020 The Gregoretti case has landed in the Senate chamber. In the late morning, the Assembly will vote on the agenda presented by Forza Italia and Fratelli d'Italia to deny the Catania Court's request for authorization to proceed against Matteo Salvini.

The League leader is accused of aggravated kidnapping: for the magistrates he would have illegally prevented the landing of the 131 migrants who at the end of July were on board the coastguard ship that had rescued them off the coast of Sicily. The former Interior Minister should take the floor at the end of the debate while he writes on twitter quoting a phrase by the poet Ezra Pound: "Ready to intervene in the Senate, with his head held high and with a clear conscience of those who defended his land and his people. 'If a man is unwilling to fight for his own ideas, or his ideas are worthless, or he is worthless.' "

In their odg, FI and FdI ask the Senate to reject the request of the Court claiming that Salvini acted for the protection of a constitutionally relevant state interest and in agreement with the government. The document will be voted by open ballot: a majority is required to approve it. number of members of the Assembly: 160 votes. A milestone difficult to reach considering that the 60 senators of the League yesterday announced their intention not to participate in the vote.

Stefani: landing delay pending redistribution
"It is clear that the migrants' relocation mechanisms were not operational as of July 26, 2019 and that a path was being worked out for their redistribution. So it took the mere technical time for them to disembark." So in the Chamber the senator of the Lega Erika Stefani, rapporteur on the Gregoretti case, recalling the content of some emails also mentioned in Matteo Salvini's defensive memory among government representatives, before the landing of the people, stopped from 27 to 31 July before landing at port of Augusta.

"Once the Junta has been empowered from its main function, bent for political reasons, at this point the necessary seat in order to be able to find the truth turns out to be only the procedural seat".