Matteo Salvini

When 94 people, including 35 children, drowned 40 meters from the Steccato di Cutro beach last February 26, the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said:“If we could, we would have saved the migrants.”And he had blocked the requests for transparency on the opaque chain of rescue and resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, for his words of rare inhumanity immediately after the tragedy and for the rescue intervention after the shipwreck had already occurred. The errors, flaws and falsehoods of the government's version of the Cutro massacre The government did not deliberately cause the migrants to die, Meloni responded to these requests while the blame and buck-passing between the Coast Guard (which reports to the Ministry of Transport) and the Financial Police (which reports to the Ministry of the Interior) continued. and Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency).Among those who claimed that they had been consulted only for information and that the...

"Drought?It's raining like it hasn't rained in a century.You got the wrong address," the deputy prime minister said from the stage

“I love the mountains.And when you go to Adamello and Tonale and see the glaciers retreating year after year you stop to think, then you study history and you see that they are cycles.The ice doesn't retreat because Capezzone goes out of gas with his Golf turbo."Even the deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Matteo Salvini, did not want to miss out on his contribution to the positions bordering on climate denialism of part of the government majority.​​"In winter it is cold, in summer it is hot...", he further said in Cervia, in Romagna, during the League's summer festival. Salvini's statements come after those of the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni (who, referring to the extreme meteorological events in Sicily and Lombardy in recent weeks, spoke of "difficult bad weather" and "unpredictable climatic reality" and, during the closure of electoral campaign of the Spanish far-right party Vox, said that it was necessary to "stop the ultra-ecologic...

Six years in prison.This is what the Palermo PMs asked of Matteo Salvini, Vice President of the Council and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure.The request came as part of the trial in which the leader of the League is accused of having kidnapped the passengers of the Open Arms ship in 2019. The case has had and is having a disruptive effect on Italian politics, with the classic accusations against the "politicized judiciary" and the proclamations on the "defense of the borders".In reality it is a script that we have widely seen and seen over the years.The differences are in the seriousness of the tones and in the general context in which the case is placed. What we talk about in this article:The Open Arms caseWhat is Salvini accused of?Government propaganda and its dangers The Open Arms case In August 2019, the ship Open Arms of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms is prevented from disembarking in Italian ports for 19 days.These are the times of the first...