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The head of the Libyan judicial police, Najeem Osema Almasri
Habish, the director of Tripoli's Mitiga detention centre who
was released by the Italian authorities on Tuesday, was in
Germany last Saturday, a day before his arrest in Turin,
well-informed sources said Wednesday.
The official, who has returned to Libya, was arrested on an
International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant regarding the alleged
brutal treatment of migrants at the detention centre.
Almasri went to a car rental in Germany and asked whether he
could take his rented car to Fiumicino airport near Rome on the
same day the ICC issued an arrest warrant for him, according to
the sources.
On that day, an official at the Hague-based court contacted a
security official at the Italian embassy in the Netherlands to
alert Italian authorities that Almasri would be travelling to
Italy, where he was arrested on Sunday evening.
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