The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said Tuesday that she has been denounced before the International Criminal Court (CPI) along with other members of her government for her relationship with Israel during the War in Gaza.
“I think there is no similar case in the world and in the history of a complaint like this,” he has ironized in the public television program Door to door which will be broadcast tonight and of which the Italian media have advanced some fragments.
Meloni alluded to a news of these days according to which the jurists and lawyers for Palestine (GAP) for alleged complicity with Israel, along with his Foreign Ministers, Antonio Tajani, and Defense, Guido Crosetto, and the CEO of the Leonardo Defense Equipment Company, Roberto Cingolani.
In this sense, the ultra -right -wing president denounced “a climate that is being barbarized a lot” and said he has “lost the account” of the death threats that direct her. “Italy has already lived this story. I see many things that we begin to see normal but they are not. And I think there are responsible … for example, who say that I have my hands stained with blood or that this government is an accomplice of genocide,” he reproached.
Meloni also referred to the manifestations and strikes of the last days in Italy, of the largest in all of Europe. First, he accused the greatest union in the country, CGIL, who organized a strike on Friday, of “being much more interested in defending the left than the workers.”
Then, although he expressed his “great respect” for the demonstrations, he stressed that the cases of disturbances that were recorded in cities such as Rome, Milan or Turin (North) were “organized.”
He also denounced the presence of a banner that celebrated in the head of a great demonstration that Roma toured last Saturday and congregated hundreds of thousands of people (at least 250,000 according to the police). “One of the posters celebrated the terror of October 7. When the terrorism of Hamas is allowed to be at the head of a manifestation, perhaps the hypothesis that they are infiltrated is a bit naive,” he said.
A struggle that extends
Despite Meloni’s strangeness, there are already precedents of complaints to governments for his alleged inaction before the Israeli offensive in Gaza, that which already reaches 67,000 dead in two years. For example, last August there was a lawsuit in the National Courts of Belgium, which includes Prime Minister, Bart of Wever, in addition to the Foreign Minister, Maxime Prévot; the finance, Jan Jambon; and mobility, Jean-Luc Crucke.
The Droit Pour Gaza Association, responsible for the complaint, argues that its action is based on the, adopted in December 1948 and signed by Belgium (such as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court that judges those crimes). Article 1 of that articulate stipulates that the States parties commit to prevent and sanction the genocide. This commitment, they understand, creates a clear legal obligation for the states, which must take all the necessary measures to prevent crimes committed in Gaza.
