The Nordio case? It's ridiculous and extremely serious.

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An opposition spokesperson said the Almasri case is somewhere between ridiculous and extremely serious. Ridiculous seems the right word, but it has a serious implication that has nothing to do with the case. It's ridiculous to think that an anomalous, and in some respects morally repugnant, act of state, such as the immediate expulsion of a Libyan general accused by an international court of the worst crimes committed in his homeland, could have been avoided, and therefore shouldn't have been shrouded in secrecy and emergency procedures like the state flight. Last January, a half-report emerged regarding the arrest of a Libyan military official. Libya is not a normal state; it is an anomalous country. The law either does not exist or is ineffective, the norm is flouted by a game of armed power based on the exploitation of energy resources and the kidnapping of human beings on their way to emigrate for blackmail, and the general was brazenly wandering around Europe, its soccer fields, and its jurisdictions. An Italian minister, with his offices and officials, and generally a government charged with security and national interests, before the execution of international justice mandates, cannot publicly state, exhibit, or certify this incontrovertible fact. But they must know, understand, and evaluate it through the work of intelligence services and the coordination of other branches of the executive branch.

These are obvious facts. Instead of opening a legal issue that could have dramatic repercussions on relations with an anomalous, lawless country and lead to devastating consequences of all kinds (borders, supplies, etc.), it is wise, normal, and established common practice to eliminate the problem by expelling the case, and the person embodying it, from Italian jurisdiction. If the Libyan general had been arrested and held at the disposal of Italian and international justice, we would today have a belligerent front on our borders and would have entered a spectacular vicious circle, believing we had committed a virtuous act. It is therefore ridiculous to be scandalized by the half-words, the inconsistent circumstances of date and time, the confidentiality and opacity, which obviously surround a sordid story of necessity and protection of the "fact," the crisis and the front it would open, compared to abstract "law" and ethical concerns.

In a barely normal country, one doesn't orchestrate confusing national security campaigns when it's clear, as is clear in this case of General Almasri, that there was no cover-up or co-responsibility for the behavior of the individual accused of heinous crimes, but simply a security issue that needed to be addressed through an immediate and secret act of the state. And here, from the ridiculous, we move to the extremely serious, as the opposition spokesman says. The special attention being paid to Justice Minister Nordio is clearly politically motivated by the unique nature of his role. Nordio is now the promoter of a reform underway—the separation of careers between prosecutors and judges—which essentially achieves justice, or at least lays the foundation for this complete implementation of the de facto equality of prosecution and defense in criminal proceedings . The desire to undermine a reform of this magnitude through political and parliamentary means is understandable, or at least legitimate, in a country that has for over three decades operated as a republic of prosecutors. But the fact that they are trying to do so by taking the shortcut of a ridiculous scandal is extremely serious.

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