Migrants, Salvini: “I don’t regret anything, I plan to go back to being a minister”

“I don’t regret anything, I just did my duty.” Thus Matteo Salvini responding to a Spanish reporter leaving the bunker court in Palermo where the first hearing of Salvini’s trial for the Open Arms affair took place. “There is a Spanish ship that has committed an abuse, a Spanish ship that refuses to go to Spain is abusive. It seems simple to me – he says – Spanish ships go to Spain, I was a minister in Italy and I plan to return to do so and the Spanish ships go to their ports “.” I’m only sorry for two things – says the leader of the League – the time I take away from my children and for the money that Italians spend on a political process organized by the left. a year in which landings double despite Covid, compared to the previous year “. “Defending the borders is the duty of a minister but of anyone. Going to trial because I did my duty is surreal” he says. “Richard Gere will also come to testify. Tell me how serious a process is when he comes from Hollywood to testify about mine. wickedness Richard Gere – Salvini says – I hope the process lasts as little as possible because there are more important things “. The leader of the League then underlines that “there are twelve European countries, with governments also of the left, which are asking for walls. Not Italy. Then I would be the bad guy”. “There are socialist governments that are spending money to build walls – he reiterates – I would not want to get to this but if Europe continues to ignore the immigration emergency, the States will do it alone. The eastern Mediterranean route is a sieve, landings have increased fivefold compared to 2019. And the deaths have also increased, eh. The phenomena of the NGOs that are the saviors of the homeland, are accomplices of the deaths at sea “. And he adds:” There are certainly economic reasons, in Italy there are several inquiries on the money that NGOs earn with this activity. I would not want that beyond humanity there was an economic interest in this trafficking of human beings because some sentences in Italy, albeit in the first instance, have already someone convicted of stealing thanks to illegal immigration “.