Justice Minister Carlo Nordio and
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi on Wednesday will report to
the Lower House on the case of Libyan general Osama Almasri.
The ministers are scheduled to address the House at 12:15.
Parliamentary sources said the decision was announced at a
meeting of party whips on Tuesday, which is still ongoing.
The centre-left opposition has repeatedly called on government
members, and in particular on Premier Giorgia Meloni, to
urgently report to the Lower House and Senate over the case,
effectively closing down Parliament last week till Monday in
protest.
On Monday, League party Senator Giulia Bongiorno, who has been
appointed as the sole attorney representing Premier Giorgia
Meloni, Nordio, Piantedosi and Cabinet Secretary with the
intelligence brief Alfredo Mantovano in a probe into the release
and return home of the wanted alleged war criminal and Libyan
judicial police commander after a criminal complaint was filed
against them, held a meeting at the premier's office Palazzo
Chigi.
Libyan police chief Almasri, the director of Tripoli's notorious
Mitiga detention centre who is wanted by the International
Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes against humanity and war
crimes, including murder, torture, rape and sexual violence,
allegedly committed in Libya from February 2015 onwards, was
flown back to Libya on a State flight two days after his
January 19 release over a controversial technical issue with his
case.
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