ITALY: Anti-migrant actions on trial

Hopes rose in 2020 that Matteo Salvini, head of Italy’s far-right League political party and former interior minister and deputy prime minister, could be held to account for his inhumane actions against migrants and refugees and those helping them. Salvini was indicted for kidnapping and dereliction of duty in two separate court cases involving the coastguard ship Gregoretti and a Spanish rescue vessel, the Open Arms.