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Premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing
Brothers of Italy (FdI) party on Monday attacked the Catania
judge who at the weekend released a migrant from detention on
the grounds that a recent government decree was 'illegitimate',
saying the magistrate was not impartial.
FdI's immigration chief Sara Kelany said that it was "extremely
serious" that the judge "expressed convictions on social media
against (Transport Minister and former interior minister Matteo)
Salvini and in favour of the pro-immigration policies of the
(sea search-and-rescue) NGOs".
Kelany said this went again the Constitutional requirement of
impartiality and said the party was considering taking action to
see whether "the limits set by the Constitution have been
breached".
Magistrates' union ANM blasted FdI's accusations.
Alessandro Rizzo, the president of the ANM's Catania section,
expressed "firm and rigorous" support of the judge in question,
Iolanda Apostolico.
Rizzo said Apostolico was a "decent person who has worked in
compliance with the law", adding that the ANM "rejects with
indignation the accusations levelled against her.
"The relationship between the executive and the judiciary should
be very different," Rizzo added.
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