The Prosecutor’s Office investigates the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, for embezzlement and to favor crimes. The reason is the controversial release of the Chief of Police and Paramilitary Libyan Osama Almasri, claimed by the International Criminal Court (TPI) for war crimes and against humanity, and that Italy released on January 21 in a confusing procedure, that has been difficult to explain and justify. So much, that the TPI has shown its outrage at what happened and has asked for formal explanations to the Italian government.
This is the head of the terrible Prison of terror For migrants from Libya where numerous torture and human rights violations have been denounced, crimes for which it has been accused since 2011. According to the TPI arrest warrant, Almasri is responsible, as director of the Mitiga Prison, for at least 35 Homicides and 22 sexual assaults, one of them to a 5 -year -old boy. In many cases, he intervened personally, the judges of The Hague argue.
The background of the matter is evident to the opposition and the NGOs: Italy depends on Libya to make the role of Bad police and stop immigration on its coasts, and finances for it, next to the EU, since 2017, with little scrutiny about its methods. In the two days that followed their arrest in Turin, on Sunday 19, where he went to see a Juventus party, 500 people suddenly arrived at Lampedusa Island. On Tuesday I was already on a plane and arrived in Tripoli, where he was received as a hero and taken by shoulders by a crowd.
The Italian Court of Appeal argued defects in its arrest. Actually, there was a formal request from the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, who did not move a finger, and the judges explained that they were dedicated to freeing him. At the same time and, on the contrary, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi moved quickly to repatriate the fugitive in an Italian state plane, not even one of line. In a parliamentary appearance, Piantedosi justified the decision by saying that it was a “dangerous subject.” Both ministers are also investigated, like the executive undersecretary who manages the secret services, Alfredo Mantovano.
It has been Meloni herself who has revealed the matter in a video hung on social networks, stressing that it is the same prosecutor who charged Matteo Salvini for the Open Arms casewhere it has been acquitted in the first instance. He also stated that the investigation is based on a complaint by Luigi Li Gotti, 78, whom he defined as “a pone of the left” and “very close to Romano Prodi”, squeeze minister of central-left. He was undersecretary in one of his governments, but in his beginning he began, like Meloni herself, in the MSI posfastic party. He also added that he has been a defense lawyer for repentant of Nostra.
The leader of the ultra -right, who is in full clash with the magistracy for the reform of the judicial career, has warned: “I am not blackmail and they will not intimidate me.” It is difficult to foresee the route that can have the case, but what is certain is that from now on it will be an explosive battlefield in the political debate.
In his video monologue, Meloni defends himself with the arguments that the government has already handled these days, and that numerous jurists and experts have considered little consistent. It suggests that there was some mysterious intention to touch Italy to arrest the criminal, it is assumed that to put Meloni in political intention. Because before it had passed through other European countries, which had not acted. In addition, the Prime Minister repeats that the arrest request was badly processed and had to release it for vices in form. However, there were many ways to save this obstacle, they have explained these jurists and magistrates. TPI himself criticized that the criminal was released and sent to Libya “without prior notice or consultation.”
“Interestingly,” says Meloni with retintin, the TPI issued the order on January 18, “when this person was about to enter Italian territory after for 12 days he had passed by three European countries.” Actually, the order was activated in Interpol when they had soul clues, because that day he rented a car in his name to go to Italy and then the alert was activated.
The Prime Minister also insists that the arrest request was not sent to the Minister of Justice, as indicated by the protocol, and that is why it was not validated by the Court of Appeal of Rome. Actually, the Prosecutor’s Office spent two days asking the minister to solve this problem, but never responded, and that is why the judge had no choice but to order the release of the detainee. “At this point, before leaving this free subject in Italian territory, we decided to expel it and repatriate it immediately for security reasons,” says Meloni.
