Italy Senate Panel Votes to Proceed With Trial for Salvini: Report

Matteo Salvini
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By John Follain and Sonia Sirletti

January 20, 2020 at 6:08 PM UTC

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January 21, 2020 at 7:00 AM UTC

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A panel of the Italian Senate voted to allow the start of prosecution of League party chief Matteo Salvini for refusing to allow a vessel carrying stranded migrants to dock when he was interior minister, Ansa news agency reported.

The Senate committee refused to block a trial for Salvini, Ansa reported, without citing anyone. Prosecutors are charging him with kidnapping, in denying access to a Sicilian port for 131 migrants rescued by a coast guard ship in July.