The Italian prime minister says that he is being investigated for repatriating a lord of the Libya War

Milan – Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation against Premier Giorgia Meloni And two government ministers to repatriate a lord of the Libyan war searched by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the prime minister announced on Tuesday.

Meloni revealed the research on allegedly helping and inciting Ossama Anjiem, also known as Ossama Al-Masri, in a video posted on social networks. She said that her ministers of justice and internal and a undersecretary are also attacked in the investigation.

The Meloni government has been under opposition fire, human rights groups and CPI itself for releasing Al-Masri on a technicality after being arrested in the northern city of Turin by an order of the international court.

Meloni said that the investigation was promoted by a complaint from an opposition politician. In Italy, prosecutors must launch investigations based on complaints, and depends on a preliminary hearing judge to decide whether or not the charges occur. The process can take months, if not more.

Italy arrested Al-Masri in Turin, where he had attended a football match, on January 19, the day after the CPI arrest order was broadcast. He was expelled in a government plane on January 21, after a court did not confirm his arrest.

Meloni complained in the social media post that the order was issued upon arrival in Italy “after having stayed for about 12 days in three other European countries.”

She said that the International Arrest Order had not been transmitted to the Ministry of Justice as required by law “and for this reason, the Court of Appeals of Rome decided not to confirm the arrest.”

“At this point, this issue was free in the Italian territory, and instead of leaving it free, we decided to expel it and repatriate it immediately for security reasons with a flight, as happens in other similar cases,” Meloni said.

Meloni expressed indignation for the investigation, added: “I cannot be blackmailed. I will not be intimidated. ”

The Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, and Interior Minister Matteo Pianttosi, as well as Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovani, are also under investigation.

Piantosi is scheduled to answer the legislators’ questions about the case on Wednesday. He told the Senate last week that expelled Al-Mesi “for urgent security reasons, with my expulsion order, in view of the danger raised by the subject.”

The Order of the ICC accused Al-Masri of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Mitiga prison in Libya from 2015 that are punished with life imprisonment in prison.

The ICC said he was accused of murder, torture, rape and sexual violence. He said that the order was transmitted to the Member States, including Italy, on January 18, and that the Court had also provided real -time information that had entered Europe. The court said he had reminded Italy at that time that he contacted “without delay” if he was with any problem cooperating with the order.

Al-Masri leads the Tripoli branch of the Institution of Reform and Rehabilitation, a notorious network of detention centers administered by the Special Dysmasion Forces backed by the Government.

Like many other militias in western Libya, the SDF has been involved in the atrocities in the Civil War that followed the overthrow and murder of the Libyan dictator of Long Data Moammar Qadafi in 2011.

Recently, the main prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued arrest orders for alleged crimes in Libya beyond the civil war, even in detention centers where human rights groups have documented abuse.

Barry writes for Associated Press.