Another political sentence against Italians says Salvini

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 11 - Rightwing League party leader, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini on Monday called a Rome tribunal's referral to the European Court of Justice of the case of seven migrants taken to a controversial new processing centre in Albania "another political sentence against Italians," as he had characterised a previous similar ruling as the work of allegedly politically motivated judges acting against the interests of Italians.
    "Another political sentence not against the government, but against Italians and their safety. The government and Parliament have the right to react to protect citizens, and they will do so," said the former hardline anti-migrant interior minister.
    "Provided that some other magistrate, in the meantime, does not sentence me to six years in prison for having defended the borders," Salvcini added, referring to a Palermo trial in which he is accused of kidnapping 147 migrants by refusing to let them off a Spanish NGO run rescue ship in Lampedusa for 19 days five years ago as part of his controversial closed ports policy. (ANSA).