A preliminary investigations judge
on Monday dropped charges of instigation to commit crimes
against far-right League leader and former interior minister
Matteo Salvini for allegedly urging violence against German
migrant rescue ship captain Carola Rackete by calling her a
criminal who had tried to kill Italian police by ramming their
boat in defiance of Salvini's closed ports policy.
But a separate defamation case against Salvini for his
statements against the former Sea Watch 3 commander, whom he
also said was in league with migrant traffickers, is going
forward.
Rackete, 33, sued Salvini, 48, for his allegedly defamatory
statements about her.,
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