Asymmetrical Haircuts Episode 127 – The Italian (Libyan) Job with Luigi Prosperi and Margherita Capacci

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Despite the political alignment that allowed the recent arrest and transfer of former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court, arrest warrants have not been producing results in recent times.

The latest example was the extraordinary ‘debacle’ – as our guest Luigi Prosperi of Utrecht University put it – around Italy’s arrest and then transfer of Libyan warlord and smuggler Al Masri back to Libya. As of now, we have seen no response from Italy to the charge that it has failed to do its duty under the (ironically-named) founding document of the ICC, the Rome Statute.

Together with Luigi and our resident Italian speaker Margherita Capacci who produces our Patreon pod, we explored what exactly seemed to happen on the Italian side of things. And we wonder which countries, signed up to the ICC, would really arrest current Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu or current Russian president Vladimir Putin, both facing charges at the ICC if they ever come to The Hague.