Trial opens against Italy’s Salvini for blocked migrant ship

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.