Six ‘years’ jail sought for Italy’s deputy PM

ROME: Italian prosecutors on Saturday requested a six-year prison sentence for Matteo Salvini, Italy’s far-right Deputy Prime Minister, for blocking migrants from disembarking at an Italian port in 2019.

Salvini, a partner in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition, is on trial for alleged deprivation of liberty and abuse of office for keeping 147 migrants at sea for weeks on a ship run by the Open Arms charity.

“The prosecution has asked for former interior minister Salvini to be sentenced to six years”...