The head of the Italian government is again in the eye of the cyclone. Giorgia Meloni announced, Tuesday, January 28, in a video on Facebook that she and two of her ministers were targeted by an investigation for embezzlement and complicity, after the expulsion of a Libyan official. Osama Almasri Najim, head of the Libyan judicial police, is the subject of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (CPI) for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed since February 15, 2015.
Arrested ten days ago in a Turin hotel under this mandate, he was released on the orders of the Rome Court of Appeal a week ago for procedural defect, and expelled towards Tripoli aboard a Airplane chartered by the Italian state. While Georgia Meloni had already aroused controversy by signing a cybersecurity contract with more than a billion euros with SpaceX, the far -right leader is now suspected with his ministers of justice Carlo Nordio and the interior Matteo Piantedosi to have facilitated the liberation of the Libyan as well as his dismissal to Tripoli.
“It is almost certain that the file opened by the prosecution of Rome will not lead to any trial, since any trial should be authorized by the Parliament where the government has a solid majority,” said the Italian daily life Corriere della will be. For its part, the opposition camp read the letters of four victims of Osama Almasri Najim in the Chamber of Deputies, castigating the supposed actions of Georgia Meloni.
“Forward for the defense of Italy”
And, to defend oneself, it did not take long that Georgia Meloni directly put in question of the magistrates to whom she accuses of being politicized. She attacked the Prosecutor of Rome, Francesco Lo Vo, who notified her the opening of an investigation into the expulsion of the Libyan. In the event that the Italian population has lost its memory, the forties recalled that Francesco Lo Vois was the prosecutor in Palermo in charge of the accusation in the trial of his government vice-chief, the anti-immigration leader Matteo Salvini, tried For having blocked migrants at sea while he was Minister of the Interior in 2019, and relaxed. “Forward for the defense of Italy. When security is at stake, there is no room for going back,” said Georgia Meloni.
In everyday life The repubublicawe read that the ex-Italian minister, Giuseppe Conte, reacted strongly: “Meloni groans and postpones the fault on justice, I have never done that!” Moreover, the main interested party stressed that the complaint had been filed by the lawyer Luigi Li Gotti, who defended many repentant mafia, but above all was under security for justice in a center-left government, directed by Romani Prodi. Note that the opening of an investigation is a compulsory act following the filing of a complaint and allows the persons referred to by the survey to appoint a lawyer. Osama Almasri Najim is accused by the ICC of having committed crimes against prisoners in Libya because of their religion, or when they were suspected of “immoral behavior” or to support or be affiliated with armed groups.
Georgia Meloni had already defended the expulsion of the Libyan on Saturday, asking the ICC to “clarify why she took months to launch this arrest warrant when Almastri had already crossed three European countries”. She resumed this argument on Tuesday in her video. The ICC “after months of reflection issues an arrest warrant against the head of the Libyan judicial police, but curiously the court does it precisely when this person was about to enter the national territory after having stayed Serene way for a dozen days in three other European states, “she said. One thing is certain: this case could help to stir up the tensions between the office led by the prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi and the Palais Chigi.