ROME (ITALPRESS) – “It is not for us to enter into the judicial affair, that is up to the magistrates. However, we have plenty of elements to say that there are clear political responsibilities of the government and the Prime Minister. That is why for days we have been asking Giorgia Meloni to come and report in the House: she must explain to the country why they decided to release the head of the Libyan judicial police, accused of very serious crimes by the International Criminal Court.” Thus, in an interview with la Repubblica, Debora Serracchiani, a Pd deputy with responsibility for justice in the Schlein secretariat. The video with which the premier announces that she has received a notice of guarantee “explains nothing. Rather, worse, it provides a version of convenience – she stresses -. It seems to me that as usual we are faced with a prime minister who likes to play the victim, skilled in telling half-truths. And saying, above all, falsehoods: it is not true that she has received a notice of guarantee but only a notice due by law. Nor is it true that she is not blackmailable.” “If it is true that in the days when Almasri was arrested we had a spike in landings from Libya, it can be deduced that we are facing a political decision oriented to avert a massive wave of migration. So much for being blackmailed,” Debora Serracchiani continued, “We are talking about a prime minister who promised to go after boatmen and human traffickers all over the globe: he had one in jail, who among other things could also explain how those routes work, allow us to intervene, but not only was he freed, even repatriated on a state flight.Asked “who is the culprit in the mess,” Serracchiani replied, “First of all, Minister Nordio, who had two days to prevent Almasri’s release and did nothing. He did not respond to a first request from the Attorney General’s Office and a second from the Court of Appeals, which had urged him to comment on the arrest. So he cannot say that he was not informed, nor that he was not put in a position to act against a person accused of unprecedented violence. But the biggest responsibility lies with Meloni: a minister does not make such a decision without the cover of the head of government.” Regarding Nordio and Piantedosi’s disclosures in Parliament, “there is no excuse for shirking parliamentary confrontation,” he says, “it is a lack of respect for institutions and for citizens who are waiting for answers. They have a duty to come and explain how things went, why they released a criminal, not use the judicial affair to escape from their responsibilities.” And when asked if the notices of indictment are a reprisal for justice reform, he replied, “I think they have to stop going to confrontation with the judiciary. Of looking for absurd alibis. This is a due act, following a complaint received from the Rome prosecutor’s office. Overlapping the two plans only serves those who do not want to shed light on a case that is politically embarrassing because it calls into question respect for international law. Nordio has repeatedly said that cooperation between states and supranational bodies is essential, but then he does the opposite.” “Faced with a request for a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity, the political choice to free and accompany Almasri to Libya on a state flight contradicts international commitments,” he adds. “We become an untrustworthy country. That does not honor the rules of a treaty that, moreover, was signed in Rome.” – photo Agenzia Fotogramma -(ITALPRESS).
