Rome, Nov 15 (AFP\/APP):A trial pitting Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni against investigative journalist Roberto Saviano opened Tuesday, with the anti-mafia author accused of defamation for an outburst over her stance on migrants.<\/p>\n
Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party was in opposition at the time, but took office last month after triumphing at the polls on a nationalist campaign that promised to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa.<\/p>\n
Savings, best known for his international mafia bestseller “Gomorrah”, faces up to three years in prison, if convicted.<\/p>\n
In a short speech outside the Rome court, he said Meloni’s attack on those who save lives at sea was “inhuman”. <\/p>\n
The case dates back to December 2020 when he was asked on a political TV chat show for a comment on the death of a six-month-old baby from Guinea in a shipwreck.<\/p>\n
The baby, Joseph, had been one of 111 migrants rescued by the Open Arms charity ship, but died before he could receive medical attention.<\/p>\n
In footage shot by rescuers and shown to Saviano on the chat show, the baby’s mother — who has just been pulled from the sea without Joseph — can be heard weeping “Where’s my baby? Help, I lose my baby!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rome, Nov 15 (AFP\/APP):A trial pitting Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni against investigative journalist Roberto Saviano opened Tuesday, with the anti-mafia author accused of defamation for an outburst over her stance on migrants. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party was in opposition at the time, […]<\/p>\n
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