A former judge with the International
Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday dismissed talk of there being
anything untoward in its handling of the warrant for Libyan
judicial police commander Najeem Osema Almasri Habish.
Premier Giorgia Meloni has said she wants clarification about
why the warrant was not issued until Almasri, who is wanted for
war crimes, was in Italy after him being in other European
countries in the preceding days.
Almasri was arrested in Italy earlier this month but released
days later on a technicality.
"There was no short circuit" former ICC judge Cuno Tarfusser
told ANSA, stressing that the court had been "absolutely
transparent".
"It's a step that takes days because the arrest warrant must be
well written, well reasoned, the documents must be studied".
He said that in the meantime the suspect had travelled around
Europe and the court didn't know exactly where he was.
"The ICC informed six countries, not just Italy," Tarfusser
said.
"There is nothing abnormal in all this. There's no conspiracy,
no conspiracy about Italy because Meloni is in charge".
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