Italy's senate votes to lift Matteo Salvini's immunity from prosecution
by Associated Press in Rome from on (#56B4T)
Ex-minister faces kidnapping charges for preventing docking of migrant rescue ships
The Italian senate has voted to lift Matteo Salvini's immunity from prosecution, clearing the way for possible charges against the far-right former interior minister for refusing to allow 164 migrants to get off a ship in Sicily.
The case, from last August, is the third involving a rescue ship standoff in which Italian prosecutors have sought kidnapping charges against Salvini.
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