(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 14 - Elon Musk was speaking as a private citizen who had honest thoughts about a specific issue and did not want to affect Italy's sovereignty nor the dynamics of its institutions with his comments on the Italian judiciary, Musk's contact in Italy, Andrea Stroppa, told Sky Tg24 on Thursday.
    "Musk's words are the outcome of an honest thought concerning a theme, he did not want to harm the sovereignty of our country nor the dynamics", said Stroppa, after Musk said Rome judges who nixed the detention of migrants in Albania under the government's controversial policy of taking asylum seekers to be processed in the country "needed to go".
    "I believe it is right to remember that he spoke as a private citizen, as an entrepreneur and not as a figure of an administration that will take office in a few months", said Musk's man in Italy.
    The Tesla, X and SpaceX owner Musk, who was appointed by US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday to head a newly created government efficiency agency, had written via X that "these judges need to go," on a user's post on the news of the suspension of the validation of the seven migrants' detention decided by the immigration section of the court of Rome on Monday. (ANSA).