• Regeni, asked for trial for four members of the Egyptian secret services

  • Regeni, the Egyptian Public Prosecutor insists: "Unmotivated trial, the perpetrator remains unknown"

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January 24, 2021 Five years have passed since the kidnapping in Cairo of Giulio Regeni, the young Italian researcher victim of torture and then murdered.

Five years of deafening silence on the part of Egypt which, between misdirections and lack of answers to the Public Prosecutor of Rome investigating the murder, has never shown that it really wants to get to the truth about what happened in those days between January and February of 2016 which preceded the discovery of Giulio's mangled body along the road that leads from the capital to Alexandria.



In recent days, the Rome Prosecutor's Office, led by Michele Prestipino, has asked for the indictment of the four Egyptian 007s involved in the investigation, with the preliminary hearing that could be set by the end of spring. 



A story, together with that of Patrick Zaki - the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna in preventive prison for almost a year in Cairo on charges of subversive propaganda - which refers to the systematic violations of human rights in Egypt.

Amnesty International denounced that between November and December at least 57 prisoners, including women, were executed in the country, almost double the 32 executions recorded in all of 2019. This already dramatic toll is likely to be underestimated, as the Egyptian authorities do not disclose data on executions and the total number of prisoners on death row and do not give notice to family members and lawyers.  



On the occasion of the anniversary of the kidnapping, the case will be discussed in the next EU Foreign Council, which will be held on January 25.

Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio will speak about the affair via videoconference, who will take stock of the procedural situation. 



Meanwhile, the community of Fiumicello, the town where the researcher grew up, is preparing to remember Giulio.

This year, due to the Covid emergency, all events will take place in streaming.