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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said again Thursday, January 30, that the investigation into his role in the release of a person suspected of war crimes in Libya was politically motivated, fueling a heated debate.

Giorgia Meloni announced Tuesday in a video on Facebook that she was targeted, as well as two of her ministers, by an investigation after the expulsion of a Libyan official, accusing the magistrates of politicizing their function.

“Politicized magistrates”

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. Ten days in a Turin hotel under this mandate, he was released on the orders of the Rome Court of Appeal for procedural defect and was expelled to Tripoli aboard a plane chartered by the Italian State .

Mme Meloni is suspected with his ministers of justice, Carlo Nordio, and from the inside, Matteo Piantedosi, of having facilitated the liberation of the Libyan and his referral to Tripoli. Thursday, she again questioned magistrates that she criticized for being politicized. Speaking by videoconference during an event in Milan, Giorgia Meloni said that the news of the investigation had tarnished the image of Italy on the international scene.

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More generally, she said that the actions of “Politicized magistrates” were not “Not normal”. “Some judges, fortunately few, want to govern”she said. This week she had questioned the prosecutor of Rome, Francesco Lo vo, who notified her the opening of an investigation into the expulsion of the Libyan.

Giorgia Meloni had recalled that he 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, before being released.

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