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".
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