The conflict intensifies with the decision of the Catania court that accepted the appeal of the three Tunisian migrants, who disembarked in mid-September in Lampedusa and were later taken to the new center of Pozzallo, judging the recent government decree “illegitimate in several parts ”. . The Ragusa police commissioner ordered the detention of the migrants, but judge Iolanda Apostolico did not validate the detention and with a reason that in fact considers both the detention and the request for bail in exchange for freedom to be illegitimate. Further inflaming the conflict were some of the judge’s positions on social media, considered by many to be at least inappropriate, such as sharing a petition for a motion of censure against Matteo Salvini when he had recently been appointed Minister of the Interior.
“I was shocked by the sentence of the judge in Catania, who for incredible reasons (“the physical characteristics of the migrant, which gold miners in Tunisia consider favorable to the exercise of their activity”) releases an illegal immigrant, already the beneficiary of a expulsion order, unilaterally declaring Tunisia an unsafe country (a task that does not fall to the judiciary) and attacking the measures of a democratically elected government,” wrote Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on social media. “This is not the first time that this happens” but “we will continue to defend the borders”.
And the apostolic judge? With a statement released to Ansa and published on the news agency’s website, he justified his choice: “The legal issue should not become personal.” “I don’t want to get into the controversy, nor the merits of the issue. My provision can be challenged with an appeal to the Court of Cassation, I do not have to defend it. duties”, states the judge who continues: “And then it should not be transformed from a legal issue into a personal matter”. Meanwhile, the government moves forward: “We will challenge the decision” of the Court of Catania “from reading the law, we are convinced that we have reasons to support it in the next instance of judgment”, confirmed the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, at the point of press followed by the Provincial Commission for Public Order and Security in Imperia.
Source: IL Tempo
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