Giorgia Meloni is suing Gomorrah writer for criminal defamation over comments about her migrant policy
The Italian writer Roberto Saviano is standing trial on Tuesday for calling Italy’s new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, a “bastard” after she said NGO boats that had attempted to rescue refugees should be sunk.
Meloni, the leader of Brothers of Italy, a party with neo-fascist origins, who had said Rome should “repatriate migrants and sink the boats that rescued them”, sued Saviano for criminal defamation, and last year a judge in Rome ruled that the writer should be tried.
