Even before the substance, Gregoretti's case messes up the times. The Senate immunity committee must decide whether to give the go-ahead to the trial against Matteo Salvini, but the majority pushes for a postponement of the vote until after the Regionals. According to the opposition, Pd and M5S do not want to give the leader of the League the right to present himself in the election campaign as a victim. The former interior minister has already begun to summon the square. "We are thinking of a national mobilization - he said - that I risk a kidnapping process for defending the country's borders, security and honor is unworthy of a civilized country". The votes in Emilia Romagna and Calabria therefore cross the request of the court of ministers of Catania to try the former minister: the accusation refers to the story of the 135 immigrants who for a few days were not disembarked from the coast guard ship that had them rescue, on July 25, 2019 off Lampedusa.
Against the leader of the League "it does not take any persecution - said the secretary of the Democratic Party Nicola Zingaretti - but it does not even take any impunity. It is not we who use justice to do politics, it is he who uses tones that are not worthy of a civilized country ". The reference was to the words written a few minutes earlier by Salvini on Facebook: "Shame, profound shame for the abusive MPs of the Democratic Party and 5S who want to try me, want to send me to jail, but they are afraid and ashamed therefore they postpone. Because after the vote in Emilia ? Because they are afraid of losing face. If you are men and not rabbits or chatters, immediately. They are here, come and get me, I am not afraid. "
