The Federici case: a mother’s battle and the shadow of geopolitics

Report – Episode of 11/16/2025
Report by Daniele Autieri

This is the story of Federica Federici and her battle to find her daughter, kidnapped four years ago by her husband and father of the child. A personal drama that leads to the geopolitical balances in the region, pulling a thread from Almasri to the highest levels of the Italian government.

 

 

 

Libya, Meloni releases Almasri but forgets little girl

Read the original article on Il Fatto Quotidiano
by Marco Grasso

DOUBLE STANDARD HAGER, KIDNAPPED 4 YEARS AGO BY PARENT LIBICO
MOM , GOVERNMENT PROMISES AND ARIANNA M. ‘S INTEREST.
JUDGES ON THE SIDE OF THE WOMAN, BOTH IN TRIPOLI AND ROME

According to the Italian government’s official version, there were reasons of national interest behind the return to al-masri‘s Libya . Last January. photos of the general getting off an Italianstate plane have gone around the world . Thereis a lesser-known story, however, that shows how Italy, despite the condescension shown toward an official wanted by the InternationalCriminal Court for crimes against humanity, struggle to defend their citizens in Libya. It is about the kidnapping of an Italian girl : little Hager ,who isnow 7 years old, taken almost four years ago to her mother, Federica Federici,a 34-year-old Roman office worker , from the former Libyan husband, Mohamed B., a member of a family protected by a powerfullocal clan , the one headed by Muammar al-Dhawi. A painful family affair ,which at one point, according to one version provided and confirmed to the family by qualified institutionalfigures , would cross Iaffaire Almasri. And also because of this intersection true, alleged or boasted, the dossier has become very thorny and has been circulating on desksfor months of most highest representatives of the government.

THE COUPLE had met in Malta and marriedin Italy, where Hagerwas born in 2018 .She converts, however,the man struggles to integrate and shows signs of growing religious intransigence. On March 9 , 2022, using his father’s illness as an excuse, he kidnaps his daughter. A lawsuit is triggered.

Willing to do anything, Federica moved to Tripoli, with the help of a contract provided by the Italian embassy. Prosecutions go on; today a European and an international arrest warrant hangs over Mohamed B., issued following a request for precautionary measures issued by the Prosecutor’s Office Di Roma. And even a Libyan court, the Islamic court of Bab Ben Gashir, ruled on the case in the fall of 2024, ordering in a historic ruling, the return and exclusive custody of the little girl to her Italian mother, dropping the charge of apostasy.

Meanwhile, however, nothing moves. Mohamed B.-protected by a diplomatic passport and brother of a Libyan Foreign Ministry delegate to Palestinian Relations-is apparently and inexplicably nowhere to be found. Until, last January, the return of the General accused torturer seemed to open a glimmer of hope: “The Almasri case was shown to me by the Agency as a great opportunity for exchange. Since then I have been waiting impatiently for someone to come knocking on my door to return what was taken from me. But no one has ever come knocking.” These words are written in her own handwriting by the child’s mother, Federica Federici, in a letter delivered in late July to Giorgia Meloni, after several meetings took place in the presence of top government officials and the premier’s sister Arianna. The agency to which the woman refers is Axis, the foreign intelligence service headed by General Giovanni Caravelli. Confirming the woman’s claim – namely, an alleged connection between the Almasri case and that of the little Hager girl – are two meetings that took place in early summer at the highest institutional levels; summits in which the woman attended together with her attorney, lawyer Roberto De Vita, in the presence of Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Alfredo Mantovano: “In the Farnesina we learn from advisor Alessio Nardi and Protection Unit head Marco Petacco that my dossier is in the hands of General Caravelli. We suggest a meeting, which to date has not yet taken place. At Palazzo Chigi, adviser Alessandro Monteduro reports to us that my ex-husband would be traced between Libya and the Emirates, and my daughter may be in Oman.” In fact, the Oman one is a false flag denied already a year and a half earlier. The child, for other sources, would be in the Warshafana air. The question is why-in a certainly complex scenario such as Libya, where Italian companies nevertheless continue to operate-Italy has not yet done anything to have her returned.

 

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