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Former Interior minister Matteo Salvini leaves the Senate prior to a vote on lifting his immunity for a trial on Aug 2019 Open Arms case, in Rome Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP, File)

Former Interior minister Matteo Salvini leaves the Senate prior to a vote on lifting his immunity for a trial on Aug 2019 Open Arms case, in Rome Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP, File)

Italy's deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, shakes hands with a police upon his arrival at the Palermo's court Friday Dec. 20, 2024 as he awaits a verdict for preventing some 100 migrants from disembarking a rescue boat in 2019 when he was interior minister. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy's deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, shakes hands with a police upon his arrival at the Palermo's court Friday Dec. 20, 2024 as he awaits a verdict for preventing some 100 migrants from disembarking a rescue boat in 2019 when he was interior minister. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy’s vice premier, Matteo Salvini arrives at a court in Sicily that is expected to announce its verdict on whether Salvini is guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship when he was interior minister, in Palermo, Italy, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (Alberto Lo Bianco/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s vice premier, Matteo Salvini arrives at a court in Sicily that is expected to announce its verdict on whether Salvini is guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship when he was interior minister, in Palermo, Italy, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (Alberto Lo Bianco/LaPresse via AP)