(Reuters) An Italian prosecutor on Saturday asked a judge to sentence right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini to six years in prison over his 2019 decision to prevent more than 100 migrants from landing in the country.
The then interior minister, who is currently serving as deputy prime minister and transport minister in Giorgia Meloni’s government, has been charged with kidnapping and is awaiting sentencing following his decision that left the migrants stranded at sea.
Prosecutors had then ordered the seizure of their ship and the evacuation of the people on board.
On Saturday, the prosecutor asked for Salvini’s imprisonment at a hearing in the Sicilian capital of Palermo. The final decision rests with a senior judge at the end of a three-stage judicial process.
