Threatening letters were sent to Agrigento magistrates on Wednesday.
An envelope containing gunpowder was sent to Agrigento Chief
Prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio and an envelope with a bullet
inside was sent to preliminary investigations judge (GIP)
Alessandra Vella, both of whom have been dealing with prominent
migrant cases as well as mafia ones.
It was the third such intimidatory act for Patronaggio in the
last few months.
Vella is the judge who did not uphold the arrest of
Sea-Watch3 skipper Carla Rackete after she defied Interior
Minister Matteo Salvini's NGO ban to land 40 migrants at
Lampedusa after they threatened suicide after 17 days at sea
since being rescued off Libya.
Patronaggio has led probes into favouring illegal
immigration, but has also probed Salvini for allegedly abducting
migrants in standoffs with the EU.
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