(Adnkronos) - "Noi abbiamo documentato che benché si contesti al ministro Salvini il reato di sequestro di persona, in realtà a bordo della Open Arms i migranti sono stati per 14 giorni in mezzo al mare mentre potevano tranquillamente sbarcare in 2 giorni in Spagna". Lo ha detto l'avvocato Giulia Bongiorno al termine dell'udienza nella quale ha pronunciato l'arringa difensiva al processo Open Arms che vede imputato il vicepremier Matteo Salvini per sequestro di persona e rifiuto d'atti d'ufficio per non aver fatto sbarcare nell'estate del 2019, 147 migranti a bordo della nave di soccorso dell'Ong.
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00:00Today's intervention was, in my opinion, documented,
00:05which is the most important thing for an intervention.
00:07We have documented that, even if we counted
00:10Minister Salvini and the kidnapping of people,
00:12in reality, on board the Open Arms,
00:14the migrants were in the middle of the sea for 14 days,
00:18while they could safely land in Spain in two days.
00:23Above all, I think we have documented
00:26that there were innumerable possibilities to leave.
00:31There was no kidnapping of people.
00:34Open Arms, in reality, has refused a series of options,
00:38a series of solutions.
00:40I think it has been quite evident,
00:44because we have cited emails,
00:46so I have not interpreted facts.
00:48I have cited documents.
00:50Several times, several times,
00:52Italy has offered Open Arms the possibility to disembark,
00:57to disembark for any reason.
01:00Well, it has always been said no.
01:03This is the problem.
01:04Salvini has refused, but who said no?
01:06Open Arms.
01:08Senator, you have used the word
01:10bighelonare several times.
01:11Don't you think it's a bit harsh
01:13when it comes to migrants in the sea?
01:15He knows he didn't follow the ring,
01:17because the word bighelonare,
01:19the authorised Malta,
01:21Malta writes emails to Open Arms
01:25in which it says, dear Montes,
01:27why are you bigheloning?
01:29He knows the acts of the trial,
01:31he wouldn't do such a thing.
01:33Senator, do you think this is a political trial?
01:36Many colleagues of your party
01:38claim that a part of the Magistrate
01:40is in some way politicised.
01:42No, no, no, no, no.
01:44For me, it is a political trial
01:46from another point of view.
01:48Since Open Arms has been offered
01:50several times the possibility
01:52of an escape route,
01:54it has been offered several times
01:56the possibility to get the migrants out,
01:58and it has been continuously said
02:00that these migrants could not get out.
02:02Instead, they could get out.
02:04We asked ourselves why,
02:06and the answer was given to us by Oscar Campos.
02:08Oscar Campos, in a video
02:10that you can watch,
02:12says that in the end they were happy,
02:14but not because they were getting out,
02:16but because the Minister Salvini had fallen.
02:18So, according to them,
02:20it was a battle against Salvini.
02:22Is this why it is a political trial?
02:24It is a political trial
02:26when it is said that
02:28the real joy of Open Arms
02:30is the fall of Salvini,
02:32who is a very important man.
02:34But the fall of the rich,
02:36so many of them,
02:38has actually poisoned the climate.
02:40Look, the climate in this room,
02:42as you have seen,
02:44has been a climate of respect.
02:46I have total respect for the Ministry.
02:48There will never be,
02:50in my defense,
02:52a word of repose.
02:54There has never been any result in the square.
02:56To show solidarity
02:58seems to me to be
03:00only a desire by some
03:02members of the parliamentary party
03:04to stay close to Salvini.
03:06The last time
03:08that I had the possibility
03:10to get the migrants out
03:12of Open Arms
03:14was only to go to Medusa.
03:16What other possibilities have been offered?