Kidnapping charges in SeaWatch standoff - prosecutors

(ANSA) - Rome, March 27 - There are "elements to posit"
kidnapping charges in the case of the SeaWatch 3 migrant rescue
ship which had to wait 12 days off Siracusa before getting the
OK to land at Catania on January 31, Rome prosecutors said
Wednesday.
The prosecutors sent their case file, at the moment against
person or persons unknown, to Siracusa colleagues who will now
weigh whether to hand the case to the Catania ministers
tribunal.
Siracusa prosecutor Fabio Scavone told ANSA the file would be
sent to Catania on Thursday.
The Senate recently voted not to let kidnapping charges
proceed against Interior Minister Matteo Salvini in another
migrant rescue standoff with the EU last August.
In that case, Salvini kept 177 migrants on board coast guard
ship Diciotti for two weeks until Albania, Ireland and the
Italian Church agreed to take them in.

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