Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni says that Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation against her and two government ministers for repatriating a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

Meloni described the probe as 'clearly a deliberate act' and that the prosecutor who passed on the complaint to the court was 'not normal'.

The context of the Almasri investigation. The recent investigation into the Almasri case has sparked a heated political debate in Italy. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed he