Italy: Salvini on trial in June for 'defaming Carola Rackete'
The leader of the right-wing League party, Matteo Salvini, will go on trial on June 9 on charges of defaming the former commander of the Sea-Watch 3 migrant rescue ship Carola Rackete when he was interior minister in 2019. He called her "litter braggart", "German criminal", "rich German outlaw".