As such, she said, the arrest was invalid, and the decision was made to return Njeem to Libya due to security concerns as "at this point, this subject was free in Italian territory," per the AP.

Osama Najim - also known as Almasri - is the head of Libya's judicial police and ... "At that point, so as not to let him go free on Italian territory, we decided to expel him and repatriate ...