He is accused of abduction and violating international human rights conventions. Salvini will be tried for turning away migrants. Salvini’s efforts to regain attention received a star-powered lift when a court accepted Richard Gere, the American actor and humanitarian activist, as a witness in a court case in which Mr. ROME - Matteo Salvini, the nationalist leader who as interior minister exercised enormous influence in Italy, lost his position in the cabinet and at the center of the spotlight, particularly after a new establishment prime minister effectively sidelined the country’s populists.īut this weekend, Mr.
