“Cancer judiciary to be eradicated”, but Salvini is also acquitted on appeal

He was also acquitted on appeal, but once again it is the “tenuity of the fact” that prevented the leader of the League and transport minister Matteo Salvini from being sentenced for contempt of the judiciary. Thus ended the trial in Turin for the sentences pronounced on 14 February 2016 at the Collegno sports hall: during a regional congress of the League, in front of a thousand people, the then federal secretary of the Northern League Salvini, among others things, he said: “I will defend any Northern League member being investigated by that crap called the Italian judiciary, which is a cancer that needs to be eradicated.”