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July 02, 2020 "I don't think the ambassador's withdrawal is a solution, I never believed it for a simple reason: the ambassador is basically the representative of his country in another country. If you remove the de facto ambassador we stop talking, but we are interested in dialogue because we must have the truth about Regeni ": the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Manlio Di Stefano, told Radio 24 today."The pressures are done in a thousand ways, they are certainly not done by removing the ambassador," he continued. And then: "The ambassador in a country makes sense, he is not a blackmail pawn".
Palazzotto: "The collaboration didn't pay"
I said I was not confident about this meeting between prosecutors, but it went worse than I thought, and even than what Giulio's parents expected ": this was the comment by the President of the Regeni Commission, Erasmo Palazzotto, at the outcome of the yesterday's videoconference meeting between the prosecutors in Rome and Cairo. In an interview with La Stampa, Palazzotto said that the Egyptian magistrates "have no interest in seeking the truth" and he personally considers it "another attempt indirect sidetracking "because" they went back to when they were looking for the reasons for his death in Giulio's work. "So the President of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry reflects on the fact that" it had been said so much that having good relations would bring results and instead today we have the proof, if we still need one, that it is not so ", he adds, to then maintain that" it is difficult for the government to cope with this new Egyptian provocation without taking a hard position. " Moreover, he himself had warned the officials of the Farnesina saying in the hearing: "If we had made an opening of credit and Egypt had replied spades we would have been in great difficulty", to then close: "Maybe - Palazzotto observes - it would have been more prudent to wait for the prosecutors to meet before the commercial openings ".