Reggini in the footsteps of Khashoggi .. The blood of the victims chasing the killers

Al Jazeera Net

The case of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in his consulate in Istanbul, brought to the fore the case of the murder of Italian researcher Julio Regini in Cairo three years ago and gave it new momentum after some thought it was almost dead.

The most common feature of the Italian researcher and the Saudi journalist is the search for truth, and the weapon of the two pen, and then paid their lives for it through kidnappings and brutal torture and the murder of Berberi.

If Khashoggi was killed by his compatriots and his consulate in Istanbul and by higher-level instruction in Riyadh, the Egyptian authorities were and still deny any official responsibility for the killing of the Italian researcher Reggini.

Riyadh initially denied any connection to the crime, and with the Turkish administration of the crisis forced Saudi Arabia to recognize, and then deliberately installment the recognition of "incomplete" several unconvincing narratives.

The Egyptian authorities were counting on the killing of six innocent civilians from Egypt's poor workers who were in a transport vehicle, claiming to be an organization responsible for killing Reggini. Egyptian Attorney General Nabil Sadiq later denied the Italians any connection with Reggini's death, Announced in an official statement found some belongings Reggini in the house of one of the six dead.

The Egyptian authorities have been trying to buy time in the hope that the Reggini case will be brought to a standstill, or be dissolved by joint committees and meetings. The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's government has not taken any action that the Italians are interested in. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salveni's remarks made it impossible to put more pressure on Egypt. "We judge Italy and we do not rule Egypt," he said.

But the position of the Italian parliament seemed stronger than the position of the government, decided to cut ties with the Egyptian parliament, and invited the Reggini family to attend one of his meetings, which embarrassed the Italian government, and push it to reconsider its failure on the issue.

Interest
The case of Reggini remained almost rigid until the third anniversary of the murder of Khashoggi, the crime that inspired the Turkish way of dealing with the Reggini affair. Rome recently asked to investigate five Egyptian security officials.

Two days after the request was made, the names of the five wanted men were revealed for investigation, but the five names requested by Italy have so far escaped sensitive names, such as intelligence officer Mahmoud al-Sisi, the son of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, whose name has already been mentioned.

However, Allegendi's lawyer Alessandra Ballerini said on Wednesday it was "impossible" that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi "was not aware of Reggini's detention," considering Cairo's accounts of the crime "fabricated", while confirming the involvement of 20 officials in the security services Egyptian in killing him.

In Alessandra's speech, she stressed the Italian investigation into the killing of Reggini in Egypt, which she said "indicates the involvement of 20 Egyptian security officials in kidnapping, torturing and killing him there in 2016."

"We will not change our strong positions on this issue," she said, referring to former Egyptian Interior Minister Majdi Abdel Ghaffar. "He was lying when he said Reggini's target was different from what he had said. Days before he was killed in Egypt. "

The recent positions taken by Rome to sever relations with the Egyptian parliament and to summon the Egyptian ambassador to them indicate their intention to move forward on the path of escalation, which, if the Egyptian authorities remain the same, could lead to the use of the European Court and the Security Council.

Sisi receives Mohammed bin Salman in the last round to break the isolation after the death of Khashoggi (Anatolia)

Sisi and Trump do not have him
If Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman found - at another notice - in US President Donald Trump a sanctuary to protect himself from accountability for his involvement in Khashoggi's death, Sisi did not have the money, oil and influence Saudi Arabia possessed, Accusing the nearest officials of him. Abbas Kamel may be the head of the current intelligence, and Sisi and his regime fear that the international community and the European Union will move against him.

Sissi's political and economic bribe with the Italian government, such as attributing a large proportion of newly discovered gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean to Italy's Eni, will not stand up to world public opinion now after Khashoggi's case.

Observers expect Sisi to try to "settle any concessions in favor of Italy, even at the expense of Egyptian national security, and if not succeed, it will resort to delay and the use of allies of Israelis and Emiratis."

The opinion of these people that the most feared by the Sisi system is that evidence of murder and torture outside the law is clear in the massacre of Rabaa Adawi, more than in the killing of Reggini.

Therefore, if Italy succeeds in internationalizing the Reggini case, the door will also open to the internationalization of the cases of the killing of demonstrators in the fourth and the renaissance that followed the coup d'état, and this is what Sisi and his regime fear most, as the blood of the victims seems to haunt and besiege her murder.