The trial on the Open Arms he sees began in the morning of January 9th Matteo Salvini defendant. The leader of the League, today in the bunker of the Ucciardone prison in Palermo for the preliminary hearing, is accused of kidnapping and omission of official documents. Yet there are many shadows that hover over the story. One among all that linked to the commander of the NGO. Because Marc Reig Creus, in July 2019 accused by the Ragusa Public Prosecutor’s Office of private violence and aiding and abetting illegal immigration, did you prefer to stay in the middle of the Mediterranean for weeks rather than accept the help of Malta and especially of your Spain? This is the question that Lega sources ask themselves, as well as one of the questions that could be resolved in the trial on the case.
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The commander, in fact, after having refused Malta’s offer to let at least part of the immigrants get off on board, had said no to the Pos offered by Madrid and had declined to be accompanied to the Iberian coasts by an Italian ship that would have guaranteed navigation quieter. Salvini recalls that the boat it was approved for only 19 people. The commander, after the first rescue carried out in the Libyan sar area on 1 August with 55 people brought on board, took another 69 on 2 August: he had to immediately head towards Spain, Malta or Tunisia. Instead, “the commander deliberately chose Italy as the place of docking and disembarkation” underline the lawyers of the former owner of the Interior Ministry.
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