Rome, 5 November (LaPresse) – ‘The Italian government was well aware of the existence of an arrest warrant issued by the Tripoli Public Prosecutor's Office against the Libyan Almasri as early as 20 January 2025.’ This is what we learn from government sources, who explain how ‘on that date, the Italian Foreign Ministry received, almost simultaneously with the issuance of the international arrest warrant by the Prosecutor's Office at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a request for extradition from the Libyan judicial authorities.’ ‘This information,’ the same sources continue, ‘was one of the fundamental reasons why the Italian government justified to the ICC its failure to hand over Almasri and his immediate expulsion to Libya.’ ‘All this,’ they explain, "can be easily verified by anyone on the Court's website, and has been amply illustrated in the Court of Ministers, the Chamber's Authorisation Committee and the Chamber itself: it is therefore strange that this objective and public information should be completely new to so many members of the opposition. The real novelty compared to 20 January 2025 is what happened in Tripoli with the armed clashes that broke out in May 2025, triggered by the killing of Abdelghani Gnewa Al Kikli. As a result, the Rada Force, of which Almarsi is a leading member, was weakened militarily and politically and underwent a downsizing, with a significant de facto transfer of its monopoly on delegated security functions and its ability to control the territory. “It is precisely this context of reduced autonomy of the Rada Force,” the same sources conclude, “that has made Almasri's arrest not only materially possible today, but also functional to the internal objectives of the Libyan Government of National Unity”.