(ANSA) - PALERMO, MARCH 03 - The coast guard has been "cowardly involved in a squalid political battle" echoes "the prosecution is ignorant or in bad faith".
"I say thanks to the men of the sea and I appeal to certain politics and certain journalism: limit the controversy. I have broad shoulders, I have received many accusations, I consider them mostly unjust".
Thus the Minister of Infrastructure and Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, in connection with a conference in the port of Palermo, speaking of the massacre of migrants in Cutro and addressing "a prayer to the dead".
"Some newspapers, some politicians and new party secretaries - added Salvini - manage to throw into confusion and controversy a tragedy that has names and surnames in prison, that is, the smugglers are the murderers. They are journeys of death and not of life. Because certain politics and certain journalism lends itself to that, it's not for me to say. If the Coast Guard defends its integrity in the courtrooms, it will only be doing its duty".
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