"Mom I'm fine. Don't worry. I wait for the magistrate to sign my release and then I take the plane and go back to Italy". These are the first words on the phone with his family after three days of silence by Calogero Nicolas Valenza, the 27-year-old Gelese, stopped by the Egyptian police, just arrived at the Cairo airport, because he is being investigated as part of an investigation for international traffic of drugs.
"We came out of a nightmare, I'm happy, but I want to hug my son again to be calm", comments his father, Angelo Valenza, 50, a metalworker. He was ready to sell the house they live in, in Gela, to support the legal costs for the release of his son. But there will be no need. The interventions of the Farnesina and the Italian embassy in Egypt were decisive in the timing and in the turnaround to the situation. "I have no words to thank everyone, from the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, to the Italian Embassy in Cairo - says in tears the mother of the young man, Rossana, 46, a housewife - they moved in a discreet, professional and effective way and they have always been close to us. Like Amnesty international. Of course now I want to see my son at home: in three days I aged 10 years, I was desperate. Now I am still anxiously waiting, I want him here to be sure that he is free and is well".