Almasri case, Nordio: "The documents we have contradict the newspapers' claims. We will report to Parliament."

"We will report to Parliament when the time comes, but the documents we have radically contradict what has been reported in the newspapers," Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said regarding the Almasri case, arriving at the Conference for the Recovery of Ukraine in Rome.

The Tribunal of Ministers' decision on the Italian government's failure to hand over the Libyan general to the International Criminal Court is imminent. After several months of preliminary investigation, the body's three judges will soon draw their conclusions and must inform the Prosecutor's Office whether to request Parliament's authorization to proceed against one or more suspects or to close the case. The deadlines—which are not mandatory—expired at the end of June; the judges will submit their findings in the coming days.

At stake is a possible crime: failure to perform official duties, having intentionally failed to comply with the International Criminal Court's request to arrest Libyan murderer and torturer, General Najeem Osama Almasri . A political lie: it is not true that the ministry, or rather "a director of our ministry's justice affairs department," as Carlo Nordio stated in Parliament, was notified by an email from an Interpol official on Sunday, January 20, 2025, at 12:37 p.m., of Almasri's arrest.