(23 Jan 2025)
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Rome, Italy – 23 January 2025
1. Italian Minister of Interior Matteo Piantedosi sitting at government desk, underneath the Senate speaker’s seat, during question time
2. Opposition senators applauding during opposition speeches
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Peppe De Cristofaro, senator for the Green and Left Alliance opposition party:
“It’s political the reason why you sent this gentleman back because obviously the Libyan authority is complicit unfortunately with the Italian government. And then let me say it like this because this really baffles me once again. But, are you the same people in these weeks who want to issue the security bill in this country? How does it work, minister? You send a worker who protests for his job to jail for two years. You send a climate activist protesting climate change to jail for three years, and then instead you release an international criminal and torturer?”
4. Piantedosi at his desk during questions
5. Various of senate
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Matteo Piantedosi, Italian minister of interior:
“Honourable colleagues, last January 19, Libyan citizen Ossama Anjiem al-Masri, who had recently arrived in Turin after having been in previous days in other European countries, was subjected to the execution of the international arrest warrant for extradition purposes issued the previous day by the International Criminal Court. Upon execution of the order, the offices of the Prosecutor General at the Court of Appeal in Rome and the relevant Department of the Ministry of Justice, as well as the ex officio appointed defense attorney and consular authorities were informed. The Libyan citizen was temporarily detained at the Lorusso and Cotugno prison and then placed at the disposal of the competent judicial authority, namely the Rome Court of Appeal and the aforementioned Attorney General’s Office at the Court of Appeals. The following Jan. 21, the Rome Court of Appeals, as part of its prerogatives to scrutinize measures restricting the freedoms of personal liberty, declared that there was no need to confirm the arrest of the Libyan citizen, which was assessed as formally not regular in that and not provided for by law, ordering his immediate release if not detained for another cause.”
7. Wide of oppositions senators and Piantedosi
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sandra Zampa, senator for the Democratic Party opposition party:
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“There is no doubt about it. Today the International Criminal Court is asking us to explain why a criminal suspected of rapes, tortures, violences was released.”
9. Opposition senators applauding
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Michele Fina, senator for the Democratic Party opposition party:
“President, Minister, I would like to make a gift to President Giorgia Meloni, when she will come back of course from her search for human traffickers all over the globe, as Senator Zampa said, and after she has comfortably accompanied them back home, here is the tribute, it’s this edition of the book Pinocchio.”
11. Various of Piantedosi and opposition senators
12. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Matteo Piantedosi, Italian minister of interior:
13. Various of Piantedosi leaving
14. Italian and EU flags
15. Exteriors of senate
STORYLINE:
Italy repatriated a Libyan warlord sought by the International Criminal Court due to security concerns, Italy’s interior minister told lawmakers Thursday in the government’s first official comment on its decision to expel the suspect and not hand him over to face charges.
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