The government tries to intimidate those who expose its lies, anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano said after being fined 1,000 euros for calling Premier Giorgia Meloni after the death of a migrant baby amid her fiery anti-migrant rhetoric when in opposition in 2020.
"Losing today is an example of what will happen tomorrow, it leads one even more to understand what kind of situation we are living in, with an executive power that continually tries to intimidate anyone who exposes their lies", said the Gomorra author.
Saviano, who has lived under police protection since his Camorra expose was published in 2006, also called then interior minister Matteo Salvini, now deputy premier and transport minister, a bastard over the 2020 incident.
When he called the two politicians "bastards", Saviano referred to their previous statements criticizing NGO rescue ships as "sea taxis" and "cruise ships".
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