Far-right leaders gather in northern Italy for League Party rally

Far-right European leaders attended a rally by Italy's far-right League party in its northern heartland in Pontida on Sunday.

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00:00Matteo Salvini used the League Party's annual gathering that is being held here in Puntida,

00:12northern Italy, for a number of reasons. It was certainly a show of strength of the newly

00:16formed Patriots for Europe, with leaders of some of the political forces within that group

00:23who were invited to join the event, including the Dutch PVV leader, Wilders, and the vice

00:30president of Austria's Freedom Party, and the president of Portugal's Chega Party. But

00:36the event focused above all on protecting borders, national security. Some of the banners,

00:42in fact, read, Protecting Borders is not a Crime, and very much on the ongoing open arms

00:49trial, with Salvini trying to use this event to raise his profile and gain support after

00:55Italian prosecutors requested a six-year jail sentence for refusing to disembark 147 migrants

01:03when he was interior minister in 2019. And by inviting members of Patriots for Europe,

01:10Salvini is very much framing this as a European issue. Giorgia Orlandi for Euronews in Puntida.