No backtracking’ says premier after Almasri case notificationOur commitment to defend Italy will continue, as always, with determination and without hesitation. When the security of the Nation and the interests of Italians are at stake, there is no room for steps backwards. Straight on our path. The Prime Minister wrote on Facebook, Giorgia Meloni, who yesterday announced in a video message that he had received a notice of investigation from the public prosecutor Francesco Lo You for the crimes of aiding and abetting and embezzlement, together with the Ministers of Justice Carlo Nordio, of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi and to the undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano
When the security of the nation and the interests of Italians are at stake, there is no room for steps backward,” she added, vowing to go “straight on”.
Libyan judicial police commander Najeem Osema Almasri Habish, wanted for war crimes by the ICC and arrested in Italy this month, released on a technicality, and flown back to Tripoli to a hero’s welcome aboard an Italian secret service plane.
Meloni said she had received notice of a probe into possible aiding and abetting and embezzlement of public funds from a prosecutor, Francesco Lo Voi, who unsuccessfully prosecuted Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini for allegedly abducting migrants as part of his closed ports policy to migrant rescue ships as interior minister in 2019.
She said the same notice of investigation had been sent to Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and cabinet secretary with the intelligence brief Alfredo Mantovano.
The ICC has demanded an explanation of the release of Almasri, wanted on charges of alleged rape, murder and brutalising migrants in a Tripoli jail.
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Magistrates union ANM said the notification sent to Meloni was a formality that prosecutors were obligated to carry out after a lawyer filed a complaint over the Almasri case, adding that it would be up to the court of ministries to decide whether to pursue it or shelve it.
It said the notification was necessary so the parties concerned could get legal council. (ANSA).
