The parents of the murdered Italian researcher, Giulio Regeni, announced their willingness to file a legal complaint against the government of their country for violating the law selling arms to countries that "commit gross violations of human rights."
In a TV interview on the Italian network "La Citi", Claudio and Paula Regeni confirmed that a petition was prepared by the family's lawyer, Alessandra Ballerini, regarding a legal complaint against the Italian government after Rome delivered a frigate FREMM to Cairo late last December.
Despite the quarrel between Cairo and Rome over the case of Regeni's murder, an Italian naval frigate "FREME" arrived on Thursday, one of two frigates of the same type, that had been contracted between Egypt and Italy.
The delivery of the frigate came a few days after the Rome Prosecution office completed its investigations into the murder of the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016, and accused 4 officers of the Egyptian National Security Agency of carrying out the crime.
Whereas last Wednesday, the Egyptian prosecution announced that a criminal case would not be instituted in the case of Giulio Regeni's murder in Cairo, and that the accusation of 5 security officers in the incident was excluded;
Rome strongly rejected this, and said - in a statement to its foreign ministry - Thursday that it will continue to move in international forums to uncover the circumstances of the killing of the Italian researcher and punish the perpetrators.
Italian student Giulio Regeni disappeared in Cairo in 2016, and his body was found 9 days later with signs of torture (activists)
Regeni, an Italian, is a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, and he was conducting research in Cairo for a doctorate, and he disappeared for 9 days, after which his body was found with signs of torture in February 2016.
On 30 November last year, the "Prosecutor of the Republic in Rome" announced the suspicion that 5 members of the Egyptian security services were responsible for the killing of the Italian student, while the Egyptian prosecution - in a statement at the time - made reservations about suspicion of security personnel, and spoke of "forming a gang" for the purpose of theft Uses false security documents.
Relations between Cairo and Rome became tense after Regeni's body was found, especially in light of the Italian media accusing the Egyptian security services of being involved in his torture and killing, which Cairo has repeatedly denied.
On December 18, European representatives called for activating the sanctions mechanism against the Egyptian regime due to its continuous violations of human rights, against the backdrop of the Regeni murder case.
The head of the European Union's Human Rights Committee, Marie Arena, said during a session in Brussels to vote on a draft resolution discussing the human rights file in Egypt. "The time has come to activate the sanctions mechanism against the Egyptian regime due to its continuous violations of human rights."