Matteo Salvini to face trial over standoff with migrant rescue ship
by Associated Press in Rome from on (#5GQA9)
Italy's former interior minister says he was doing his job by refusing to allow ship with 147 people on board to dock
A judge in Sicily has ordered the former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini to stand trial for refusing to let a Spanish migrant rescue ship dock in an Italian port in 2019, keeping the people at sea for days.
Judge Lorenzo Iannelli set 15 September as the trial date during a court hearing in Palermo, LaPresse news agency reported.
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