(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 12 - Elon Musk's condemnation of Rome judges who nixed the detention of a second batch of migrants subjected to Italy's controversial policy of taking migrants to be processed in Albania on Tuesday split Italian politics into supporters and critics of the world's richest man and top Trump supporter's intervention.
    As a result of the Rome judges' decision the seven migrants, who are citizens of Egypt and Bangladesh, were brought to the Italian port of Brindisi early on Tuesday.
    On October 18, the same court failed to validate the detention of 12 migrants who were part of the first group to be taken to Albania under the government's controversial agreement to run migrant-centres on Albanian territory.
    "These judges need to go," said Tesla and SpaceX owner Musk via X on a user's post on the news of the suspension of the validation of the detention of seven migrants decided by the immigration section of the Court of Rome, which also referred the case to the European Court of Justice, which has ruled that neither Egypt nor Bangladesh are wholly safe.
    Musk was a big supporter of Donald Trump's successful US Presidential election campaign and he looks set to hold a powerful position in the new administration.
    Among those who welcomed Musk's apparent call for the judges to be removed from their posts was rightwing League party leader, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, who on Monday described the ruling as "another political sentence against Italians," as he had characterised the previous similar ruling as the work of allegedly politically motivated "Communist" judges acting against the interests of Italians and the safety of their borders.
    Salvini, who is the subject of a Palermo trial in which he is accused of kidnapping 147 migrants by refusing to let them off a Spanish NGO run rescue ship in Lampedusa for 19 days five years ago as part of his controversial closed ports policy a then hardline interior minister, said Tuesday: "Elon Musk is right.
    On December 20, I could receive a 6-year prison sentence for having blocked, as Minister of the Interior, the landings of illegal immigrants. Seen from abroad, all this seems even more incredible." (ANSA).