FILE PHOTO: Italy's Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini attends the upper house of parliament ahead of a confidence vote for the new government, in Rome, Italy, October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
ROME (Reuters) - Matteo Salvini, Italy's deputy prime minister, faces a possible six-year prison term if a court finds him guilty on Friday of kidnapping a boat full of migrants who were held offshore Italy for almost three weeks in 2019.
Salvini was interior minister at the time and has always denied the charges, arguing that he was defending national interests by trying to prevent a Spanish charity rescue ship from bringing 147 asylum seekers to Italy.
