(ANSA) - BOLOGNA, FEBRUARY 04 - An online application has passed 100,000 signatures, launched on January 2 on the platformChange.org by the 'Station to Station' community and directed to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, to ask for the honorary Italian citizenship for Patrick George Zaki, student Egyptian from the University of Bologna detained in Egypt.
Almost a year after the researcher's imprisonment, the association, which groups citizens and students and was born to keep alive the memory of the massacre of August 2, 1980 in Bologna, has chosen to do "something concrete - spokesman Moreno Zoli explains to ANSA - to be close to Patrick, so that he is released and so that he can, as soon as possible, return to embrace his family and continue his studies. The conferral of Italian citizenship would be a very good sign, we know that the procedure is very long, but let's know that with a super gesture partes could become reality ".
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