(5 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome – 5 February 2025
1. Various of opposition members holding placards reading (Italian) “Meloni where are you” with icons of rabbits on them, parliamentary stewards removing them
2. Government members seated
3. Mid of government members, (from left) Italian Minister of Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, and Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Carlo Nordio, Italian minister of justice:
“The first arrest warrant was completely wrong because it had no less than the date of the crime wrong. And we had noticed it. What if we hadn’t noticed? What if we had sent that request to the Italian Court of Appeals? It probably would have sent it back saying that we didn’t notice that that arrest warrant was absolutely contradictory, and the fact that it is contradictory was told by the Court (ICC) itself. I repeat, because they (ICC) had a meeting on purpose to change the date of the crime from 2011 to 2015.”
5. Nordio talking to the opposition
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Carlo Nordio, Italian minister of justice:
“It was the Court that corrected itself. It wasn’t me who detected flaws in the Court, the errors were detected by the court and then it tried to change them five days later because it realized it had made an immense mess.”
7. Opposition lawmakers protesting
8. Government members congratulating Nordio
9. Majority lawmakers applauding
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Matteo Piantedosi, Italian minister of interior:
“It deserves to be clarified firstly and emphasized that the Libyan citizen, known as al-Masri, has never been an interlocutor of the government in matters pertaining to the managing and countering the complex phenomenon of migration. And I deny in the most categorical manner that in the hours in which the affair has been handled, the government has received any act of communication that can be even remotely considered a form of undue pressure assimilated to a threat or blackmail by anyone, as has been implied in some moments of the public debate that has developed in recent days.”
11. Opposition lawmakers
12. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Elly Schlein, Democratic Party (opposition) national secretary:
“It is not to your (referring to prime minister Giorgia Meloni) followers on Instagram that you need to explain yourself, but to Italy, whose international credibility has been scarred by your deliberate choice, claimed today, to free and bring home a Libyan torturer. An arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court hangs over al-Masri, accusing him of beating, torturing, raping even a five-year-old child and personally killing detainees in Mitiga, but despite this he was released and put on a state plane with full honors. As a hero he was welcomed in Libya. A shameful thing.”
13. Opposition lawmakers applauding
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Elly Schlein, Democratic Party (opposition) national secretary:
“Look, you didn’t speak as a minister here, you spoke as a defense attorney for a torturer. The questions you should answer are very simple, ministers. Why did Minister Nordio, who was informed as early as the day of the arrest, not respond to the General Prosecutor’s request by transmitting the documents, which is the only thing you had to do? Your inaction caused the release. First you tell us that he was released because you did not have time to translate 40 pages from English. But then you tell us that in fact you had read them so well that you found flaws. Well, you have admitted that it was a political choice at last.”
15. Opposition
17. Opposition
20. Ministers Piantedosi and Nordio
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