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Giulio Regeni, the disappearance five years ago. Mattarella: 'Egypt gives answers'

2021-01-25T10:13:30.099Z


Today the case will be discussed in the EU Foreign Council. European ministers could decide to take other steps. Audience before the GUP for the four secret service agents on April 29 (ANSA)


On

25 January 2016 at 7.41 pm Giulio Regeni sent his last text message from Egypt

.

Nothing was heard of him again until February 3, when his 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.

On the occasion of the anniversary, the case will be discussed in the next EU Foreign Council today.

Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio will speak about the affair via videoconference, who will take stock of the procedural situation.

No conclusions are expected on the issue, but ministers may decide to take other steps to investigate the issue.

The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella stresses that "the action of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome

, among many difficulties, has led to the conclusion of

investigations that have identified a picture of serious responsibility

, which, soon, will be subject to the scrutiny of a trial, for the consequent sanctions to the guilty ones. We await a full and adequate response from the Egyptian authorities, urged to this end, without ceasing, by our diplomacy ". 

"The story of Giulio Regeni concerns everyone, not just Italy", wrote Piero Fassino, president of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, to his EU counterparts asking "to take every parliamentary initiative, on a political and diplomatic level, to both bilateral and multilateral level, to obtain truth on the case of Giulio ".

"It is a commitment - he underlined - for international legality and respect for human rights, values ​​on which the identity of the European Union and its relations with every nation are based".

The High Representative of the European Union,

Josep Borrell, speaking at the Council of Foreign Ministers thanked Luigi Di Maio for having asked the EU to discuss the case of Giulio Regeni

, since it is a serious matter not only for Italy but for the whole Union.

We learn from sources in Brussels.

Speaking of the "brutal" murder, Borrell pointed out that Egypt has since been asked to investigate the case and cooperate.

"We are close" with Italy and the Regeni family in their request to shed some light, he said.

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

This year, due to the Covid emergency, all events will take place in streaming on the 'La Repubblica' website and on the Facebook pages' Il comune informa - Fiumicello Villa Vicentina ',' Giulio are us' and Truth for Giulio Regeni ' .

The municipality invites all citizens to participate from home and "to color the country and their social profiles yellow".

25 JANUARY 2021 The community of Fiumicello Villa Vicentina, 5 years after the death of our fellow citizen, continues to ...

Published by Il Comune Informa - Fiumicello Villa Vicentina on Friday 22 January 2021

And

the preliminary hearing in front of the Rome GUP

Pier Luigi Balestrieri for the four secret service agents accused of the kidnapping, torture and murder of Giulio Regeni

has been

set for April 29th

.

On January 20 came the request for indictment for 007 Tariq Sabir, Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim, Uhsam Helmi, Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif.

The accusations brought against them by the prosecutor Michele Prestipino and by the substitute Sergio Colaiocco range from multiple kidnapping to complicity in aggravated homicide and complicity in aggravated personal injury.

Source: ansa

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