An Interview With Matteo Salvini

I have translated an article news article of nan interview with Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini. It discusses the investigation by the prosecutor’s office of Agrigento (Sicily) against Salvini for his role in not allowing migrants arriving on the ship Diciotti, to disembark. (They have since disembarked and four men are in custody charged with human trafficking.)

As to the opening of a judicial  investigation Sunday, also weighing in is vice premier Luigi DiMaio, 

who defending the Lega (Northern League) leader  has called for respect for the judiciary. A point on

 which today, weighing in in the columns of La Repubblica,  the president of the ANM (AssociazIone 

Nazionale Magistrati) Francesco Minisci, who  deploys the “union of the togas”, alongside the 

prosecutor of Agrigento, Luigi Patronaggio, and maintains that Bonafede should support the work of

 the magistrates, “He who covers institutional duties, in particular the minister of justice, should 

defend the constitutional prerogatives of the magistrates.” “One thing is certain- underlines Minischi-

“As we have already done, we will react every time in which there are attacks on the autonomy and 

the independence of every single magistrate, from whoever it comes. On constitutional principles, we

 will not take one step back.” And he adds:  Nobody should or be able to interfere in the work of 

colleagues. If in the case of the ship Diciotto, crimes have been committed, and in a positive case,

 whoever has committed them, it must be established who will investigate: This means autonomy 

and independence of the magistrate(s)”.