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European right-handers back Salvini ahead of migrant court ruling

2024-10-06 20:03:50Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

European right-handers back Salvini ahead of migrant court ruling

European far-right leaders have voiced their support for Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who faces a sentence of up to six years in prison after refusing to allow a migrant ship to do so in 2019 while he was interior minister.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Dutch nationalist Greet Wilders joined other politicians from across Europe to address the annual rally of Salvini's League Party, held in Pondita in northern Italy.

"You are our hero. We are with you, that's why we came here," said Wilders, whose anti-Islam party became part of the Dutch government for the first time this year as the far-right has risen across the European continent.

Far-right parties in Europe in June joined together to create the Patriots for Europe group – the third largest grouping in the European Parliament – and these parties aim to reduce Brussels' power and stop illegal immigration.

Last month, prosecutors called for Salvini to be sentenced to six years in prison for his decision in 2019 to disassipate more than 100 migrants in Italy.

Prosecutors said he had effectively abducted the migrants, forcing them to stay at sea for almost a week despite the conditions on board their boat.

"He deserves to be congratulated, not punished," Orban said during a rally in front of Salvini's supporters. "He protected the houses of the Italians, he also protected Europe."

Salvini's next court hearing is scheduled for October 18, but it is unclear when the case will be decided.

"They can arrest a person who defended national borders, but not all people. They cannot stop the sacred alliance of European peoples that was born today in Pontida," Salvini said.

Orban said anti-immigrant sentiment had spread across Europe and threatened to send asylum seekers to Brussels if the European Court of Justice did not overturn Hungary's €1 million-a-day fine over violations of asylum laws. /REL


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