Italy Politician in Court – level 2

20-02-2020 07:00

Matteo Salvini was a deputy Prime Minister of Italy, and the leader of an opposition party. Last year, he stopped several ships with Libyan migrants. He did not want the migrants to come to Italy.

There was a ship with 131 migrants on board. Salvini did not let the ship come to Sicily, Italy, and after 7 days, Spain accepted the migrants.

In December, an Italian court said that migrants have the right to freedom. This week, the Italian Senate decided that Salvini loses his immunity, and now the court must decide if Salvini is guilty. If he is guilty, he can go to prison for 15 years.

After the vote about his immunity, Salvini said that he was proud of what he did. He said that it is necessary to protect Italian borders.

Difficult words: deputy (a person who does somebody’s job when the other person is not working), opposition party (a political party that has different ideas to the parties which win the vote and rule a country), immunity (when a political person cannot get a penalty or in trouble).

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