The twitter battle between Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and author Roberto Saviano over immigration has gone out of control with the writer who is under police protection system for his anti-mafia works accusing high ranking official of ties with underground world.
Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has stated that he has filed a defamation lawsuit against author Roberto Saviano, who repeatedly branded him “Minister of Mala Vita” (the minister of the “underworld,”one of the nicknames for the Mafia) as he criticized the official for his migration policy.
I sued Saviano, as promised. I accept every criticism, but I do not allow anyone to say that I help the mafia, shit that I fight with all my strength, or to say that I am happy if a child dies. When it's too much, it's too much.
The writer stated, he hasn't been officially noted about the suit, but expressed readiness to oppose the official in court, saying “Salvini will be called to tell the truth.”
This topped an earlier exchange of critical remarks and a recent social media feud between Saviano, who wrote a non-fiction bestseller “Gomorrah” on mafia in the region of Campania and the city of Naples, and the leader of the right-wing Lega over blocking ships with migrants, who'd been rescued the Mediterranean, from Italy.
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