Prosecutors accuse Salvini of dereliction of responsibility and kidnapping for refusing to permit the ship into port for days in August 2019. Through the almost three-week standoff, some migrants threw themselves overboard in desperation and the captain pleaded for a secure, close by port. Some migrants had been taken to land for humanitarian or well being causes, whereas the remaining 83 had been ultimately allowed to disembark in Lampedusa.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trial-opens-against-italys-salvini-for-blocked-migrant-ship/2021/10/23/a400fea2-33ed-11ec-8036-7db255bff176_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world | Trial opens towards Italy’s Salvini for blocked migrant ship