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Abbas: Murder of Italian activist is treason
[Ma'an] President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has ordered the Paleostinian Authority attorney general to open an official investigation into the murder of an Italian activist found dead in Gazoo on Friday. Abbas' legal advisor Hasan Al-Uri said the killing of Vittorio Arrigoni would be treated as treason, and that those responsible could be sentenced to death, the official PA news agency Wafa reported. "The murder of Arrigoni, who voluntarily risked his life to defend the independence and freedom of the Paleostinian people is equal to the murder of a Paleostinian warrior," Al-Uri added. Arrigoni, 36, who was working with the pro-Paleostinian International Solidarity Movement, was found dead by the security forces in a house in northern Gazoo early on Friday. He had been hanged, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, security officials said.
Gazoo premier Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... on Friday ordered the interior ministry of the Hamas-run government to open a criminal investigation into the killing. The murder "does not reflect the values, morals, or the religion of the Paleostinian people. This is an unprecedented case that won't be repeated," he said at an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis. The killers will be brought to justice "as soon as possible" to deter any similar crime, he said, adding that the government would consider Vittorio a Paleostinian martyr and name a street after him. Hamas officials said Haniyeh called Arrigoni's mother to express his and his government's condolences for the death of her son. He explained the efforts the government is making to prosecute those responsible. On Saturday, Gazoo's interior ministry "managed to arrest two suspects" in the murder on Friday of pro-Paleostinian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, in addition to two other suspects previously taken into custody, a statement said. "The security forces continue to hunt other members of the group responsible for the murder," said the statement. The suspects tossed in the clink were being questioned about Arrigoni's murder, it added, without revealing their names or when they were tossed in the clink. Hamas had said Friday two suspected kidnappers were tossed in the clink and security officials were looking for accomplices. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-17 |
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