Salvation for Salvini

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On Friday, December 20, Matteo Salvini was absolved of the kidnapping charges brought against him by Palermo prosecutors. This is the second time that leftist activist judges working in concert with immigration NGOs have failed in their attempts to wage lawfare against Italy’s former Minister of the Interior.

The first case was over four years ago. Fulfilling his duty and his promises, Salvini refused to let a migrant rescue ship, called the Gregoretti, dock in Italian ports and dump its cargo of third world migrants onto Italian soil. The Tribunale dei Ministri di Catania claimed that Salvini had “kidnapped” the 131 migrants aboard the Gregoretti and deprived them of their liberty and “human rights”. Italy’s senate then stripped Salvini of his ministerial immunity in order to allow a trial against him to proceed. Eventually, a Catania judge threw out the case.

But the left never rests on their laurels. A second kidnapping charge was filed. This time it was for Salvini’s refusal to let a migrant ship operated by the NGO “Open Arms” dock in Lampedusa. Activist prosecutors from Palermo brought the same “kidnapping” charge against Salvini. Due to backlogs, COVID-19, and the complexity of the case, it took several years to reach a verdict, but finally, we have it, and it is no different than the previous verdict. The Palermo court ruled that the facts do not support the charges levelled at Salvini. He was acquitted.

Had Salvini been found guilty, he could have faced a sentence of 6 years in prison. As expected of any Western European nation, Italy’s liberals, neo-communists, and dysgenic leftist freaks were rubbing their hands in anticipation all throughout the trial and leading up to the court’s final decision. Everyone else was rather put off by the whole affair. The world’s attention turned to Italy, with Elon Musk using X to share his disbelief and displeasure along with his support for Salvini, thereby directing the eyes of millions and the international media towards the political hit job taking place in Sicily.

While Salvini was staring down a possible jail sentence, Istat, Italy’s national statistics agency, published data showing that in 2023, only 4.4% of Italian women who reported being raped said that their attacker was Italian, compared to 24.7% who said that the rapist was a foreigner. Given the native-to-foreigner population ratio, that is 550% more rape committed by foreigners. Furthermore, 39% of the inmates in Italian prisons come from North Africa, the same Maghrebi countries from which the majority of recent migration into Italy originates. At the level of juvenile crime, it’s even more alarming. As of January 2024, 51% of juvenile detainees are foreign. Many of these foreign criminals will have arrived in Italy thanks to the very same NGOs Salvini battled against.

Consider, for but one example, the case of Abdesalem Lassoued. In October of 2023, Lassoued opened fire on Swedish football fans who had arrived in Brussels to watch Sweden play Belgium. He killed two Swedes, 60-year-old Patrick Lundström and 70-year-old Kent Persson. Abdesalem Lassoued was himself later shot dead by police. This Tunisian terrorist had a criminal history. In his home country, he had been sentenced to 26 years in prison for, among other heinous crimes, attempted murder. Convenient for Tunisia, Lassoued escaped and entered Europe via…guess where…the Italian island of Lampedusa, which has become the dumping ground and gateway for Afro-Arab “migrants” and “asylum seekers”. In reality, a useful rule of thumb is to replace “asylum seekers” with “wanted violent criminals on the run”. Things start to make a lot more sense henceforth.

Since at least 2018, when Salvini’s party Lega was voted into a coalition government with leftist populists, Italy has been a country where nationalists have tried repeatedly to stop the migrant invasion of their homeland using peaceful and legal methods. At every turn, however, they are blocked. Earlier this year, current prime minister Giorgia Meloni reached an agreement with the government of Albania wherein Italy would send its failed “asylum seekers” to a detention centre built in Albania specifically designed to hold them while their documentation is processed and their eventual final destination–for example, their home countries–is determined. The Italian government identified a pissing 12 (twelve!) fakeugees deserving deportation. No sooner had the decision been reached did Italy’s liberal legislature leap into action again, crying about a violation of European Court of Human Rights laws. A Roman court ruled that the migrants must be returned to Italy. In the end, the pact with Albania was scrapped.

The message is clear: you cannot prevent these people from coming to your country, even if they violate all manner of migration and asylum laws, and you cannot remove these people from your country either, even if they are wanted criminals. Meanwhile, your sons and daughters, grandparents, wives and husbands, will continue to be raped, maimed, and murdered by these people, and you will continue to pay for their housing and nourishment.

The battle is not over, however. The Catania and Palermo rulings set a precedent: it is not a crime to defend your country’s borders. It is not a crime to prevent foreign NGOs from depositing strangers on your shores. Matteo Salvini has several faults. He is a bit buffoonish at times. He is a Zionist shill like so many of the “kosher right” leaders in Europe. Nevertheless, he deserves credit for actually trying to do something to stop Big Immigration and the insidious NGO industry. Giorgia Meloni and her allies on the European right, such as it is, must press on. If Salvini committed no wrongdoing in keeping NGO ships at bay (quite literally), then why not do it again? Why not do it more? The NGOs have no right to treat Italy like a human depository. In fact, why not turn the tables and level charges against Open Arms? Surely, with all their links to human trafficking, there’s no shortage of “kidnapping” going on.