We aren't screening judges League tells ANM

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 5 - The League is not screening judges or delving into their private lives, the rightwing party said after the head of magistrates union ANM accused them of doing so in broadcasting a video featuring a judge who ruled illegitimate a government migrant decree at an anti-government protest in 2018 and also highlighting her past posts against League leader and former anti-migrant interior minister Matteo Salvini.
    "What has been happening in the last few hours is not a worrying screening of judges and their private lives as the ANM claims: we are faced with a public demonstration at the port of Catania and public posts of insults against Minister Matteo Salvini," said League sources.
    Rather, the 58 million 851,000 Italians who may be judged by magistrates whose impartiality and third-party status are seriously compromised by the (Iolanda) Apostolico case should be worried".
    ANM President Giuseppe Santalucia had accused the League of unfairly publishing details of Apostolico's private life in posting the video of the 2018 demo in Catania against Salvini's then policy of shutting Italian ports to NGO rescue ships.
    The League highlighted that demonstrators called Salvini and others "animals". (ANSA).