Five years ago Giulio Regeni disappeared, today the case in the EU

2021-01-25T11:25:47.937Z

On 25 January 2016 at 7.41 pm Giulio Regeni sent his last text message from Egypt. Nothing more was heard of him until February 3, when the tortured body was found on a road between Cairo and Alexandria. (HANDLE)

January 25, 12:09

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(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 25 JAN - On 25 January 2016 at 7.41 pm Giulio Regeni sent his last text message from Egypt.

Nothing more was heard of him until February 3, when the tortured body was found on a road between Cairo and Alexandria.

Five years after that message, the truth about the assassination of the Friulian researcher is still far away, despite the work of the Italian judiciary and the commitment of the government.

Today the case will be discussed in the EU Foreign Council, the foreign minister Luigi Di Maio will talk about it enviously.

European ministers may decide to take other steps.

"Regeni's agenda concerns everyone, not just Italy", wrote Piero Fassino, president of the Chamber's Foreign Affairs Commission, to his EU counterparts, asking "to take every parliamentary initiative, on a political and diplomatic level, both bilateral and multilateral", a " commitment to international legality and respect for human rights ".

Meanwhile, the community of Fiumicello, the town where the researcher grew up, is preparing to remember Giulio.

This year the events will be streamed on the 'La Repubblica' website and on the Facebook pages 'Il comune informa - Fiumicello VillaVicentina', 'Giulio are us' and 'Truth for Giulio Regeni'.

In the face of the investigations, days ago the Rome Prosecutor's Office filed the request for indictment for the Egyptian general Tariq Sabir and for three other members of the secret services of the Cairo regime, Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim, Uhsam Helmi, Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif.

The goal of the magistraticapitolini is to bring to trial the four 007s who took Giulio in January 2016, transferred him to a villa in Cairo where for days he was brutally tortured and then killed.

A process that Egypt considers groundless and based on "illogical conclusions".

(HANDLE).

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