The Regeni case, the EU: "Let's follow closely, we are on the side of the family and of the truth"

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December 17, 2020 "The European Union continues to closely follow the case of Giulio Regeni, we raised the case in our bilateral talks and asked the Egyptian authorities to cooperate fully with the Italian ones to shed light on the circumstances of his death".

Thus a spokeswoman for the European Commission specifying that the Regeni case is "important for the whole EU and not just for Italy" and that Brussels "will continue to follow the case closely and will remain in contact with the Italian authorities. is on the side of the Regeni family in the search for truth ". 

"So far - added the spokesperson - I am not aware of any discussion between the EU High Representative" Josep Borrell "and the Italian Foreign Minister" on the case.

Di Maio asked that all 27 speak "clearly" on the human rights front. 

On human rights "no one must hold back" and "the atrocious killing of Giulio Regeni concerns human rights".

For this reason Italy will ask "all EU member states" to take a clear position, with "targeted actions" on the story of the researcher brutally killed in Egypt almost 5 years ago.

Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio's live Facebook announcement came Wednesday at the end of a summit at Palazzo Chigi with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini and the owner of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese.

A meeting that lasted several hours to take stock of the situation and "activate the Foreign Ministry" on the diplomatic moves to be undertaken "in a short time" and to involve the European Union, urging the 27 countries to put pressure - political and economic - against the Egypt.

Italy intends to continue asking for answers from Cairo, also with respect to the silence that forced the Rome prosecutor to notify the conclusions of its investigation with the 'rite of the untraceable'.

"The truth will naturally be ascertained by the trial - Di Maio said - but at the same time it requires collaboration on both sides", a collaboration "which also includes the home elections of the four officials investigated in the trial and who are accused by the Italian judiciary. to be the ones who caused Giulio Regeni's death "in" chilling "circumstances.