Elon Musk's condemnation of Rome
judges who nixed the detention of a second batch of migrants
subjected to Italy's controversial policy of taking migrants to
be processed in Albania on Tuesday split Italian politics into
supporters and critics of the world's richest man and top Trump
supporter's intervention.
As a result of the Rome judges' decision the seven migrants, who
are citizens of Egypt and Bangladesh, were brought to the
Italian port of Brindisi early on Tuesday.
On October 18, the same court failed to validate the detention
of 12 migrants who were part of the first group to be taken to
Albania under the government's controversial agreement to run
migrant-centres on Albanian territory.
"These judges need to go," said Tesla and SpaceX owner Musk via
X on a user's post on the news of the suspension of the
validation of the detention of seven migrants decided by the
immigration section of the Court of Rome, which also referred
the case to the European Court of Justice, which has ruled that
neither Egypt nor Bangladesh are wholly safe.
Musk was a big supporter of Donald Trump's successful US
Presidential election campaign and he looks set to hold a
powerful position in the new administration.
Among those who welcomed Musk's apparent call for the judges to
be removed from their posts was rightwing League party leader,
Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, who on
Monday described the ruling as "another political sentence
against Italians," as he had characterised the previous similar
ruling as the work of allegedly politically motivated
"Communist" judges acting against the interests of Italians and
the safety of their borders.
Salvini, who is the subject of 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 a then
hardline interior minister, said Tuesday: "Elon Musk is right.
On December 20, I could receive a 6-year prison sentence for
having blocked, as Minister of the Interior, the landings of
illegal immigrants. Seen from abroad, all this seems even more
incredible."
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