Matteo Salvini trial: Hearings unfolding over refusing migrant ship to dock
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Italy's former interior minister and far-right leader Matteo Salvini stands trial for allegedly illegally blocking rescued migrants from disembarking from a rescue ship and holding them in dire conditions in 2019. FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta reports from Rome, Italy.