Premier Giorgia Meloni kept up her
tough talking on Wednesday, saying she will continue to do what
is needed to defend Italy, after saying on Tuesday that she was
received notification she is under investigation over a Libyan
police official who was sent back home from Italy after being
detained on an International Criminal Court arrest warrant.
"Our commitment to defend Italy will continue, as always, with
determination and without hesitation," Meloni said via social
media.
"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.
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