Justice Minister Carlo Nordio and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi on Wednesday will report to the Lower House and Senate on live TV on the case of Libyan general Osama Almasri.
The ministers are scheduled to address the House at 12:15 and the Upper House at 15:30.
Parliamentary sources said the decision was announced at a meeting of party whips on Tuesday, which is still ongoing. The centre-left opposition has repeatedly called on government members, and in particular on Premier Giorgia Meloni, to urgently report to the Lower House and Senate over the case, effectively closing down Parliament last week till Monday in protest.
On Monday, League party Senator Giulia Bongiorno, who has been appointed as the sole attorney representing Premier Giorgia Meloni, Nordio, Piantedosi and Cabinet Secretary with the intelligence brief Alfredo Mantovano in a probe into the release and return home of the wanted alleged war criminal and Libyan judicial police commander after a criminal complaint was filed against them, held a meeting at the premier's office Palazzo Chigi.
Libyan police chief Almasri, the director of Tripoli's notorious Mitiga detention centre who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, torture, rape and sexual violence, allegedly committed in Libya from February 2015 onwards, was flown back to Libya on a State flight two days after his January 19 release over a controversial technical issue with his case.
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