Zaki: sources, 'another update tomorrow, maybe two months'

(ANSA) - CAIRO, 20 JUN - The hearing of the trial against Patrick Zaki scheduled for tomorrow morning in Mansura should be postponed with a postponement "that could go up to two months", given that "it is too early for a sentence": a judicial source reported to ANSA, however, warning that the one against the Egyptian student from the University of Bologna is a "political process" and therefore "could also be closed unexpectedly" by the single judge.

    "I have no forecasts for the next hearing", always referred to ANSA by its lawyer, Hoda Nasrallah, refusing to provide any other information in this regard.

However, another judicial source predicted that tomorrow, "if the defense ends its harangue,

    The 31-year-old Patrick is on the loose after being released from prison on December 8 and at the end of 22 months of precautionary custody, but at the moment he cannot return to Italy due to the ongoing trial for "dissemination of false news inside and outside the country" based on of a 2019 article on Christian suicides in Egypt persecuted by ISIS and discriminated against by Muslim society.

    Regarding the request presented to the Egyptian Prosecutor General for his departure for Italy before the sentence, Hoda said that "we have not received any response".

(HANDLE).