Back to Story
Italy's deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, arrives 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, arrives 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)

FILE - A man who threw himself in the water from the Open Arms vessel, is intercepted by the Italian Coast guards as he tried to swim to the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Gentico, File)

FILE - A man who threw himself in the water from the Open Arms vessel, is intercepted by the Italian Coast guards as he tried to swim to the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Gentico, File)

Italy's deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, arrives 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, arrives 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)