Palermo prosecutor Giorgia Righi, who
received several threats and insults on social media after
requesting a six-year jail term for Deputy Premier and Transport
Minister Matteo Salvini on abduction charges in relation to the
Open Arms case, has been assigned a security detail, judicial
sources said Friday.
Righi, one the State attorneys on the case and a magistrate of
the DDA anti-mafia investigative division, was the only team
member left who had not been given protection yet.
Palermo State attorneys last month asked for six years'
imprisonment for former interior minister and current Deputy
Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini on charges of
kidnapping and refusal to perform official acts for having
prevented, five years ago, the disembarkation from the Spanish
NGO rescue ship Open Arms of 147 migrants in Lampedusa.
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